ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,363,167, issued on July 15, was assigned to Sophos Ltd. (Abingdon, Great Britain).
"Deduplication of endpoint images" was invented by Neil Robert Tyndale Watkiss (Oxford, Great Britain), Jonathan Francis Caine (Abingdon, Great Britain) and Timothy Rayment (Abingdon, Great Britain).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A threat management facility for an enterprise provides security services to a number of virtual compute instances executing on a remote cloud computing platform. In order to prevent or reduce an accumulation of records for abandoned compute instances, each new virtual compute instance is explicitly identified by a user (and option...