ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,732,523, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to Cybereason Inc. (Boston).

"Generation of predictive cybersecurity data queries" was invented by Avi Chesla (Tel Aviv, Israel) and Elan Pavlov (Cambridge, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computing system identifies an evidence set associated with a detected cybersecurity attack. The evidence set includes logs representing security alerts associated with the detected cybersecurity attack. The computing system analyzes the evidence set to predict actions taken by a malicious actor, the actions comprising historical actions and future actions. The computing system analyzes the predicted acti...