ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,756,722, issued on Oct. 6, was assigned to Cisco Technology Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Alert fusion for extended detection and response to security anomalies" was invented by Martin Kopp (Komarov, Czech Republic), Cenek Skarda (Praha Bechovice, Czech Republic), Josef Krupicka (Mnisek pod Brdy, Czech Republic), David Sislak (Prague) and Michal Svoboda (Prague).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques described herein for extended detection and response to security anomalies in computing networks can perform automated analysis of anomalies occurring in different telemetry sources in a computer network, in order to synthesize the anomalies in...