ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,395,499, issued on Aug. 19, was assigned to Sophos Ltd. (Abingdon, Great Britain).

"Platform for managing threat data" was invented by Andrew J. Thomas (Oxfordshire, Great Britain), Mangal Rakesh Vankadaru (Didcot, Great Britain), Prakash Kumar Talreja (Twickenham, Great Britain), Timothy Rayment (Abingdon, Great Britain) and Biju Balakrishnan Nair (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A platform for managing threat data integrates threat data from a variety of sources including internal threat data from instrumented compute instances associated with an enterprise network and threat data from one or more independent, external ...