ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,299,119, issued on May 13, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Event-triggered forensics capture" was invented by Shi Min Sharon Ko (Redmond, Wash.), Vidhi Agarwal (Bellevue, Wash.), Gueorgui Chkodrov (Redmond, Wash.), Sangeetha Madderla (Redmond, Wash.) and Mohamed Rouatbi (Yakima, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Event-triggered forensics capture technologies balance security incident data availability against data processing and storage costs. A forensic correlation engine receives basic status data of a monitored computing system. A forensic computing system detects a trigger event in the basic s...