ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,602,477, issued on April 14, was assigned to CrowdStrike Inc. (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

"Detecting targeted intrusion on mobile devices" was invented by Connor Brant (Latham, N.Y.) and David Williams (Cheltenham, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques to determining a program installed on a computing device may be indicative of performing a targeted intrusion of the computing device is described. A log file associated with the computing device may be generated. Various indicators from the log file may be determined. A security program may determine that the program may be indicative of performing the targeted intrusion based...