ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,452,257, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to Sophos Ltd. (Abingdon, Great Britain).

"Automatically generated investigation container" was invented by Dennis Clay Griffin (Pebble Beach, Calif.) and Biju Balakrishnan Nair (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A threat management facility calculates a composite threat score based on risk data from various sources, and automatically launches an investigation container for interactive threat investigation when the composite threat score meets a predetermined threshold."

The patent was filed on May 26, 2022, under Application No. 17/825,135.

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