ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,513,183, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to IMPERVIOUS WORLD CORP. (Miami).

"Real-time ransom and security breach detection and prevention" was invented by Chao Chang-Shorland (New York) and Allen Alishahi (New York).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The real-time ransom and security breach detection and prevention system empowers users and system administrators by providing real-time threat detection and prevention by detecting any phishing links, malicious executables and objects, and manipulation of authentication tokens that could potentially escalate a threat into ransom attacks, security breaches or other cyber attacks, and take immedi...