ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,489,740, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to IntSights Cyber Intelligence Ltd. (Tel Aviv-Jaffa, Israel).

"Techniques for mitigating leakage of user credentials" was invented by Gal Ben David (Petah Tikva, Israel), Amir Hozez (Ganei Tiqwa, Israel), Alon Arvatz (Raanana, Israel) and Guy Nizan (New York).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods of mitigating leakage of credentials of a user of a computer network, including monitoring at least one data source to scrape data that is compatible with credential data, applying a machine learning algorithm to the scraped data to identify at least one potential leaked credential, wherein the...