ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,425,425, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to McAfee LLC (San Jose, Calif.).

"User-sourced object reputations" was invented by Sorcha Bairbre Healy (County Cork, Ireland), Gerard Donal Murphy (County Cork, Ireland), Steven Grobman (Flower Mound, Texas), Niall Fitzgerald (County Cork, Ireland), Jillian Anne Daly (Farnanes, Ireland), Sandeep Thakur (Kandaghat, India), Brian Gaither (Prosper, Texas), Niamh Minihane (Cork, Ireland) and Catherine Costigan (Glasheen, Ireland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "There is disclosed in one example a computing apparatus, including: a hardware platform including a processor circuit and a memory circuit; ...