ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,771,698, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to CrowdStrike Inc. (Sunnyvale, Calif.).
"Real-time streaming event enrichment for security endpoints" was invented by Brent Ryan Nash (Ladera Ranch, Calif.), James Robert Plush (Lake Forest, Calif.) and Matthew Rowen (Milton, Great Britain).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Hosts of a digital security system receive event data sent by sensors on endpoints that correspond with the hosts. The hosts locally maintain enrichment caches of information regarding the endpoints, and may update the enrichment caches based on information indicated by received event data. The hosts may also generate enriched eve...