ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,386,986, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to Wells Fargo Bank N.A. (San Francisco).

"Endpoint security synchronization" was invented by Robert Clowser (Fredericksburg, Va.) and Dustin Weathers (Huntersville, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computing system is configured to manage and synchronize indicators-of-attack (IOA) rules across multiple tenants of an Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR) tool. The computing system is configured to compare rules between an indicated source tenant and a destination tenant. The computing system may then generate output indicating common rules, updated rules, and missing rules between the source ...