ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,321,454, issued on June 3, was assigned to Rapid7 Inc. (Boston).

"Command line parsing for classification of process start alerts" was invented by Matthew Berninger (Denver), Roy Hodgman (Cambridge, Mass.), Katherine Wilbur (Brookline, Mass.), Vasudha Shivamoggi (Arlington, Mass.), Lauren Johnson (Boston), Jacqueline Daniel (Bainbridge Island, Wash.) and Luke Ludington (Stratham, N.H.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method includes obtaining a command captured at a computing device to start a process on the computing device submitted via a command line interface. The command is of a plurality of commands captured at respective computing ...