ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,499,243, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to Dropzone.ai Inc. (Seattle).
"Automated threat hunting" was invented by Eric Joseph Hammerle (Kirkland, Wash.), Xue Jun Wu (Seattle), Colin James Phillips (Kirkland, Wash.), Changhwan Oh (Shoreline, Wash.), Robert Rowland Foley (Long Island City, N.Y.) and Michael Francis Buono (McLean, Va.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments perform automated threat hunting in computing environments. A threat hunt plan is obtained to guide collection of candidate evidence items from evidence sources. Portions of candidate evidence items are discarded based on relevance scores, and evidence items are dete...