ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,783,669, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to F5 Inc. (Seattle).

"System and method for cloud-based operating system event and data access monitoring" was invented by Christopher Gervais (Westwood, Mass.), Sean T. Reed (Seattle), Nicholas S. Goodwin (Everett, Mass.), Joseph D. Baker (Burlington, Mass.), Samuel Bisbee-Vonkaufmann (Braintree, Mass.), Nathan D. Cooprider (Bedford, Mass.), David C. Hagman (Tewskbury, Mass.), Lucas M. DuBois (Dorchester, Mass.) and Jennifer A. Andre (Somerville, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A cloud-based operating-system-event and data-access monitoring method includes collecting event information from a ...