ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,323,438, issued on June 3, was assigned to CrowdStrike Inc. (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

"Malicious incident visualization" was invented by Daniel W. Brown (Ipswich, Mass.), Thomas R. Hobson (Brookline, Mass.), Hyacinth D. Diehl (Minneapolis) and Alexander J. Graul (London).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques to provide visualizations of possible malicious incidents associated with an event on a host device may include causing presentation of graphics of a process or thread in a user interface. Information about detected events may be transmitted to a computing device that generates the visualizations for presentation to an analyst to verify...