ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,271,757, issued on April 8, was assigned to MORGAN STANLEY SERVICES GROUP INC. (New York).

"Security incident and event management case creation system and method" was invented by Alec R. Kerr (Tuscaloosa, Ala.) and Joseph Edmonds (Ellicott City, Md.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for improving efficiency of processing alerts by a Security Incident & Event Management (SIEM) platform involves a pipeline, and an error log associated with the pipeline, wherein the pipeline is coupled to a source of alerts and to an SIEM platform, the pipeline including a source task, at least one process task and at least one sink task, wherein the...