ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,506,749, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to Seclytics Inc. (San Diego).

"System and method for the automated detection and prediction of online threats" was invented by Saeed Abu-Nimeh (Santa Clara, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for monitoring online security threats comprising of a machine-learning service that receives data related to a plurality of features related to internet traffic metrics, the service then processes said data by performing operations selected from among: an operation of ranking at least one feature, an operation of classifying at least one feature, an operation of predicting at least one feature, ...