ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,579,259, issued on March 17, was assigned to Expel Inc. (Herndon, Va.).

"Systems and methods for intelligent cybersecurity alert similarity detection and cybersecurity alert handling" was invented by Peter Silberman (Rockville, Md.), Dan Whalen (Fairfax, Va.), Matt Berninger (Denver), Paul Diebold (Lake Oswego, Ore.) and Ben Kawecki (Arlington, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method for generating event-specific handling instructions for accelerating a threat mitigation of a cybersecurity event includes identifying a cybersecurity event; generating a cybersecurity event digest based on the cybersecurity event, computing ...