ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,341,788, issued on June 24, was assigned to Target Brands Inc. (Minneapolis).

"Network security systems for identifying attempts to subvert security walls" was invented by Paul Hutelmyer (Minneapolis) and Adam Blake (Minneapolis).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed are techniques for monitoring and identifying attempts to subvert a security wall within a network infrastructure. A method can include receiving, by a network security system monitoring and protecting the network infrastructure, network activity for the network infrastructure, determining whether the network activity triggers at least one security event rule, blocking the...