ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,603,815, issued on April 14, was assigned to OPEN TEXT INC. (Menlo Park, Calif.).

"State-based entity behavior analysis" was invented by William Wright (Scotts Valley, Calif.), Bin Qiu (Temecula, Calif.) and Thomas Caldwell (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Examples of the present disclosure describe systems and methods for state-based entity behavior analysis. In an example, entities of a computing environment may be represented using a hierarchical entity web. In some examples, an entity may have a state associated with it, which may be modeled using a place/transition (PT) network. Events within the computing environment may ...