ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,554,846, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to Crowdstrike Inc. (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

"Identifying atypical activity involving an entity in a computer system" was invented by Manu Nandan (Frisco, Texas) and Michael Brautbar (Wayland, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Timestamped events involving entities occurring over a time period are maintained in a graph where each node represents a respective entity and edges connected to a node represent corresponding timestamped events involving the entity represented by the node. A respective array of values corresponding to the edges is created for each node. A number of embedding vectors is crea...