ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,489,799, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to Morgan Stanley Services Group Inc. (New York).

"Weighted times series frequency-inverse document frequency scoring for cybersecurity alerts" was invented by Christos Kynigos (Glasgow, Great Britain), Shouhao Goh (Jersey City, N.J.) and Imran Khaliq (Glasgow, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for intelligently clustering alerts and applying a multi-stage scoring approach to prioritize and effectively address cybersecurity alerts are disclosed. The multi-stage scoring approach may involve applying Time Series Frequency-Inverse Document Frequency (TSF-IDF) Scores that ...