ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,627,699, issued on May 12, was assigned to INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Network security assessment based upon identification of an adversary" was invented by Dineshkumar Ramnath Barai (Navi Mumbai, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-implemented method comprises establishing a database based at least in part on network traffic data received from a network, detecting adversarial behavior within the network traffic data, identifying an adversary associated with the adversarial behavior, determining a plurality of specific indicators of compromise that are associated with the adversary that has been ide...