ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,536,280, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to Sophos Ltd. (Abingdon, Great Britain).
"Tracking malicious software movement with an event graph" was invented by Beata Ladnai (Altrincham, Great Britain), Mark David Harris (Oxon, Great Britain), Andrew J. Thomas (Oxfordshire, Great Britain), Andrew G. P. Smith (Oxford, Great Britain) and Russell Humphries (Surrey, Great Britain).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A multi-endpoint event graph causally relates a sequence of events among a number of computing objects at a number of logical locations including multiple endpoints in an enterprise network. The multi-endpoint event graph is used to detec...