ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,401,670, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to Darktrace Holdings Ltd. (Cambridge, Great Britain).

"Cyber security restoration engine" was invented by Simon David Lincoln Fellows (Cambridge, Great Britain), Jack Stockdale (Cambridge, Great Britain) and Matthew Dunn (Ely, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A cyber security restoration engine takes one or more autonomous remediation actions to remediate one or more nodes in a graph of a system being protected back to a trusted operational state in order to assist in a recovery from the cyber threat. The cyber security restoration engine has a tracking component the operational state...