ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,563,087, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to Darktrace Holdings Ltd. (Cambridge, Great Britain).

"Endpoint agent and system" was invented by Thomas Jenkinson (Ashford, Great Britain), David Sansom (Cambridge, Great Britain), Maximilian Heinemeyer (Lower Saxony, Germany) and Jack Stockdale (Cambridge, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The endpoint agent detects a cyber threat on an end-point computing device. The endpoint agent on the computing device has a communications module that communicates with a cyber defense appliance. A collections module monitors and collects pattern of life data on processes executing on the end-poin...