ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,695,784, issued on July 28, was assigned to Darktrace Holdings Ltd. (Cambridge, Great Britain).
"Synthetic cyberattack tool that uses a generative artificial intelligence component" was invented by John Boyer (Cambridge, Great Britain), Jake Lal (Cambridge, Great Britain), Philip Sellars (Cambridge, Great Britain), Timothy Bazalgette (Knebworth, Great Britain) and Dickon Humphrey (Cambridge, Great Britain).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A synthetic cyberattack tool uses a generative AI component to assist in generating a synthetic cyberattack by a cyber threat to produce one or more cybersecurity incidents and/or events. The synthetic cyb...