ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,549,569, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to Darktrace Holdings Ltd. (Cambridge, Great Britain).

"Automated sandbox generator for a cyber-attack exercise on a mimic network in a cloud environment" was invented by Jake Lal (Cambridge, Great Britain), Frank Jasik (Cambridge, Great Britain), Simon Fellows (Peterborough, Great Britain), James Rees Wingar (Cambridge, Great Britain), Alexander Fox Thompson (Cambridge, Great Britain), Billy McDermot (Cambridge, Great Britain) and John Boyer (Cambridge, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An automated sandbox generator for a cyber-attack exercise on a mimic network in a cloud environment...