ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,549,566, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to Darktrace Holdings Ltd. (Cambridge, Great Britain).

"Helper agent and system" was invented by John Boyer (Cambridge, Great Britain), Ciaran Mckey (Cambridge, Great Britain), Connor Trimble (Cambridge, Great Britain), James Wingar (Cambridge, Great Britain), Holly Birch (Cambridgeshire, Great Britain), Joseph Gardner (Cambridge, Great Britain), Thomas Marlow (Cambridge, Great Britain), Jake Lal (Cambridge, Great Britain), Patrick Osbourne (Cambridge, Great Britain) and Daniel Rutter (Stotfold, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects of the invention relate to a cyber security system...