ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,309,192, issued on May 20, was assigned to ExtraHop Networks Inc. (Seattle).

"Modifying triage information based on network monitoring" was invented by Po-Shen Lee (Seattle), Songqian Chen (Seattle), Amanda Jewitt (Seattle), Olga Kazakova (Kirkland, Wash.), Todd Kemmerling (Bainbridge Island, Wash.), Bhushan Prasad Khanal (Seattle), Katherine Megan Porterfield (Seattle), Jade Alexi Tabony (Seattle), Karan Rajesh Thakker (Seattle) and Xue Jun Wu (Seattle).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments are directed to monitoring network traffic using NMCs that may be arranged to provide scores based on threat assessments associated with anomaly...