ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,363,163, issued on July 15, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"NLP based identification of cyberattack classifications" was invented by Bugra Karabey (Redmond, Wash.), Tvisha Gangwani (Seattle), Houtan Faridi (Redmond, Wash.) and Priyatham Allala (Redmond, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Generally discussed herein are devices, systems, and methods for cyber attack response. A method can include receiving, at a compute device, a natural language description of activity on a computer network, executing, based on the natural language description, a natural language processing (NLP) model to provide a ...