ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,556,530, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"System and method for identification of compromise events and response" was invented by Ofir Ezrielev (Be'er Sheva, Israel), Yehiel Zohar (Sderot, Israel) and Lee Serfaty (Be'er Sheva, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems can secure distributed systems. The distributed systems may include data processing systems subject to compromise by malicious entities. If compromised, the data processing systems may impair the services provided by the distributed system. To secure the distributed systems, the data processing systems may implement a...