ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,354,043, issued on July 8, was assigned to Sophos Ltd. (Abingdon, Great Britain).
"Computer augmented threat evaluation" was invented by Joshua Daniel Saxe (Wichita, Kan.), Andrew J. Thomas (Oxfordshire, Great Britain), Russell Humphries (Surrey, Great Britain), Simon Neil Reed (Wokingham, Great Britain), Kenneth D. Ray (Seattle) and Joseph H. Levy (Farmington, Utah).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An automated system attempts to characterize code as safe or unsafe. For intermediate code samples not placed with sufficient confidence in either category, human-readable analysis is automatically generated to assist a human reviewer in reaching...