US Patent Issued to International Business Machines on Oct. 14 for "Tracking a potential attacker on an external computer system" (Czech, Polish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,445,460, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Tracking a potential attacker on an external computer system" was invented by Michal Paluch (Cracow, Poland), Szymon Kowalczyk (Cracow, Poland), Jiri Grunseisen (Brno, Czech Republic) and Marcel Butucea Panait (Brno, Czech Republic).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-implemented method obtains information about an external computer system having a connection to a computer system. The method may comprise receiving a request from the external computer system. In response to categorizing the external computer system as a potential threat...