ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,566,846, issued on March 3, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Turing machine agent for behavioral threat detection" was invented by Adam Lee Griffin (Cohasset, Mass.), Balaji Muthusamy Pandurangan (Amsterdam), Saurabh Yadav (Bangalore, India), Neha Mittal (Rohini, India) and Emmanuel Lopez Benitez (Zapopan, Mexico).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-implemented method, according to one approach, includes: causing a multi-layer neural network to evaluate a user query received from an endpoint device by processing the user query with one or more initial layers of the neural network. In response to...