ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,694,108, issued on July 28, was assigned to CrowdStrike Inc. (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

"Deception-based responses to security attacks" was invented by Adam S. Meyers (Washington), David F. Diehl (Minneapolis), Dmitri Alperovitch (Gaithersburg, Md.), George Robert Kurtz (Ladera Ranch, Calif.) and Sven Krasser (Los Angeles).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Deception-based techniques for responding to security attacks are described herein. The techniques include transitioning a security attack to a monitored computing device posing as a computing device impacted by the security attack and enabling the adversary to obtain deceptive information from ...