ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,671,699, issued on June 30, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Campaign intelligence and visualization for combating cyberattacks" was invented by Mihai Costea (Kirkland, Wash.), Michael Abraham Betser (Kirkland, Wash.), Ravi Kiran Reddy Poluri (Sammamish, Wash.), Hua Ding (Redmond, Wash.), Weisheng Li (Bothell, Wash.), Phanindra Pampati (Sammamish, Wash.) and David Nicholas Yost (Redmond, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and computer storage media for providing a multi-attribute cluster-identifier that supports identifying malicious activity in computing environments. An instance ...