ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,526,324, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to Target Brands Inc. (Minneapolis).

"Continuous improvement of security detection rules" was invented by Paul Hutelmyer (Minneapolis) and Adam Blake (Minneapolis).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods disclosed can evaluate security detection rules in a network security computing environment. Results for a processed log of security events can be retrieved. The results can identify determined outcomes for instances triggering security detection rules. The security detection rules can detect specific behavior on a network by being processed against a log of security events. Scores for t...