ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,627,679, issued on May 12, was assigned to Darktrace Holdings Ltd. (Cambridge, Great Britain).

"Cyber security system applying network sequence prediction using transformers" was invented by Carl Joseph Salji (Bedford, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A cyber threat defense system and a method for detecting a cyber threat may use a predictor, e.g. a Transformer deep learning model, which is configured to predict a next item in the sequence of events and to detect one or more anomalies in the sequence of events. This provides a notification comprising (i) information about the one or more anomalies; and (ii) a prediction of wha...