ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,425,445, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to Sophos Ltd. (Abingdon, Great Britain).

"Early malware detection" was invented by Dmitri Samosseiko (Vancouver, Canada), Fraser Peter Howard (Witney, Great Britain), Peter Adam Mackenzie (Oxford, Great Britain), Simon Neil Reed (Wokingham, Great Britain), Guy William Roberts (Milton Keynes, Great Britain) and Gabor Szappanos (Budapest, Hungary).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Malware detections are received from a plurality of endpoints in one or more enterprise networks. A first and second set of indicators of breach may be identified from the malware detections and, where appropriate, grouped ...