US Patent Issued to Dropzone.ai on July 28 for "Incident driven automated investigation" (Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,694,106, issued on July 28, was assigned to Dropzone.ai Inc. (Seattle).

"Incident driven automated investigation" was invented by Eric Joseph Hammerle (Kirkland, Wash.), Xue Jun Wu (Seattle), Colin James Phillips (Kirkland, Wash.), Alexander Gearhart Burner (Seattle), Brian David Hatch (Seattle) and Tien-jui Lee (Seattle).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments monitor security environments. An assessment of events may be used to generate event data that includes findings associated with events. The event data may be employed to: determine users associated with an event based on a discovery agent provided a discovery prompt; determine ...