ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,511,428, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to Sophos Ltd. (Abingdon, Great Britain).

"Filtered data lake for enterprise security" was invented by Prakash Kumar Talreja (Sunbury, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A data lake for enterprise security is created from an asynchronous stream of security events by deduplicating objects and creating metadata related to downstream security functions. Deduplication of objects may be efficiently performed with a bloom filter as objects are ingested into the data lake. The objects may also be augmented with metadata arranged in schemas to facilitate monitoring and use within the data lake."...