US Patent Issued to International Business Machines on May 5 for "Alert reduction using machine learning scoring" (Virginia, New York, Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,621,201, issued on May 5, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Alert reduction using machine learning scoring" was invented by Joshua J. Powers (Round Hill, Va.), Christopher A. Kulakowski (Austin, Texas) and Sophia Izokun (New York).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Reducing false positive computer security alerts is provided. A dataset is ingested that comprises a number of security alerts with resolution status. The alerts comprise data fields which are then tokenized. Cardinality is calculated for each tokenized data field compared against the whole dataset. Entropy is calculated for each tokenized value. ...