ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,381,892, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to Rapid7 Inc. (Boston).

"Security rule matching over structurally deduplicated network data" was invented by Gianni Tedesco (Seoul, South Korea), Luke Coughlan (Galway, Ireland), Morgan Nally (Galway, Ireland) and Sai Krishna Lakshminarayanan (Galway, Ireland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various embodiments include systems and methods pertaining to a security service platform that detects security threats based on a security service that operates on structurally deduplicated network data. The security service performs a security analysis that includes rule matching to detect threats to a network,...