ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,432,257, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to Sophos Ltd. (Great Britain).

"Signature quality evaluation" was invented by Santosh Subramanya (Bangalore, India) and Shankar Jayaraman (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for scanning network activity. The methods include receiving at an interface connection data regarding a plurality of network connections, wherein the connection data includes a signature used to classify each of the plurality of network connections; determining, using one or more processors executing instructions stored on memory to provide a signature analysis engine configured to analyze ...