ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,732,512, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to Amazon Technologies Inc. (Seattle).

"Network threat determination by a model" was invented by Patrick Collard (Arlington, Va.), Wayne Alan Fullen (Falls Church, Va.), Evripidis Paraskevas (Washington DC, D.C.) and Catherine Watkins (Minneapolis).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for a service provider network to identify malicious activity associated with a client device or service are discussed herein. A system can analyze network data and identify a device or service vulnerable to exploitation, disruption, data theft, and the like, by a threat actor operating as the IP address. In some...