ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,756,727, issued on Oct. 6, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Identifying similarities in complex objects at scale" was invented by Alyssa Nicole Rahman (Washington), Austin Lyman Baker (Houston), Anna Swanson Bertiger (Seattle), Nicholas Thomas Deneweth (Lake Orion, Mich.), Tyler Anthony Smith (Richardson, Texas) and Naresh Krishnamoorthy (Vancouver, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Described are systems and methods for measuring the similarity of security alerts, security incidents, or other complex data structures at scale using machine-learned signature vectors suitable for efficient similarity-...