US Patent Issued to Sophos on Jan. 13 for "Traffic scanning with context-aware threat signatures" (British, Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,526,290, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to Sophos Ltd. (Great Britain).

"Traffic scanning with context-aware threat signatures" was invented by Andrew Thomas (Oxfordshire, Great Britain), Craig Jones (Carmarthen, Great Britain) and Michael Shannon (Roberts Creek, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Threat management devices and methods. The methods include receiving, at an interface of a threat management device, contextual data associated with a first endpoint device that is in operable connectivity with the threat management device, wherein the threat management device is configured to execute at least one subsystem to scan network ...