ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,455,964, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to Hewlett-Packard Development Co. LP (Spring, Texas).

"Kill chain identifications" was invented by Vivek Srivastava (Cambridgeshire, Great Britain), Tobias Edward Sebastian Gray (Cambridgeshire, Great Britain) and Ratnesh Kumar Pandey (Cambridgeshire, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An example storage medium stores instructions that, when executed, cause a processor of a computing device to receive an indication associated with a first virtual machine, the first virtual machine containing a first application, the indication indicating that a first operation in the first virtual machi...