ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,326,943, issued on June 10, was assigned to Darktrace Holdings Ltd. (Cambridge, Great Britain).

"Intelligent adversary simulator" was invented by Carl Joseph Salji (Bedford, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus features processor(s) and a non-transitory storage medium including an intelligent-adversary simulator and a formatting modules. The simulator calculates path(s) of least resistance for a cyber threat in a cyber-attack scenario to compromise 1) a first virtualized instance (source device), 2) a second virtualized instance (targeted device), and 3) virtualized instances of components of a virtualized instance o...