US Patent Issued to Target Brands on July 22 for "Computer security system with rules engine for network traffic analysis" (Minnesota Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,368,743, issued on July 22, was assigned to Target Brands Inc. (Minneapolis).

"Computer security system with rules engine for network traffic analysis" was invented by Adam Lesperance (Minneapolis), George Jenkins (Minneapolis), Annalise Pucel (Minneapolis) and Andrew Orr (Minneapolis).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In an implementation, a method for execution of security rules on a data network is described. The method includes steps of: sensing operations of the data network; generating event objects that record the operations of the data network; storing an event-timestamp that records a first time at which the operations were sensed; ...