ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,737,500, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to Halcyon Tech Inc. (Austin, Texas).

"Agent functionality extensions using surveyors" was invented by Alejandro Espinoza (San Marcos, Calif.), Robert Bushner (Homeland, Calif.), Matthew Gosline (Austin, Texas), Kristen Lamb (Austin, Texas), Seagen Levites (Oregon City, Ore.), Clark Lindsey (Loudon, Tenn.), Jonathan Miller (Poway, Calif.), Ryan Smith (Austin, Texas) and Vu Ta (Fellbach, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Information characterizing a security event is received from an agent executing on an endpoint computing device. The received information identifies a plurality of files enc...