ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,587,559, issued on March 24, was assigned to BRITISH TELECOMMUNICATIONS PLC (London).

"Time-based approaches in malware simulation for responsive measure deployment" was invented by Alfie Beard (London) and Tom Bowman (London).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-implemented method of simulating the propagation of malware in a network is provided. The method comprises accessing a model of the network, where the model comprising a plurality of computer nodes and where each computer node of the plurality of computer nodes is connected to at least one edge of a plurality of edges. Each edge of the plurality of edges connects a pair of ...