US Patent Issued to Darktrace Holdings on June 17 for "Capturing importance in a network using graph theory" (British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,335,293, issued on June 17, was assigned to Darktrace Holdings Ltd. (Cambridge, Great Britain).

"Capturing importance in a network using graph theory" was invented by Marko Marsenic (London), Carl Joseph Salji (Bedford, Great Britain), Jake Lal (Cambridge, Great Britain) and Matthew Dunn (Ely, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A cyber security system includes an importance node module to compute and use graphs to compute an importance of a node based on factors including a hierarchy and a job title of the user, aggregated account privileges from network domains and a level of shared resource access for the user. The graphs are...