ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,363,137, issued on July 15, was assigned to Salesforce Inc. (San Francisco).

"Detection of multi-killchain alerts" was invented by Anirudh Kondaveeti (Redwood City, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for the detection of multi-killchain alerts is disclosed. The method includes receiving, by a computer system, a plurality of alerts indicative of activity within a computer network, wherein a given alert specifies one or more events having attributes, and extracting attributes from events included in the plurality of alerts. The method further includes determining attribute similarity for pairs of events based on whether a given...