ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,367,278, issued on July 22, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Multi-tenant security" was invented by Tyler Lisowski (Austin, Texas), Spencer Thomas Reynolds (Austin, Texas), Francisco Javier Rodriguez (Austin, Texas), Kodie Glosser (Austin, Texas), Dennis Warne (Pflugerville, Texas), Lloyd Wellington Mascarenhas (White Plains, N.Y.) and Matthias Seul (Pleasant Hill, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Described are techniques for multi-tenant security. The techniques include detecting malicious activity on a compromised application in a multi-tenant host. The techniques further include automatically...