ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,500,888, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to QOMPLX LLC (Reston, Va.).

"Dynamic authentication revocation utilizing privilege assurance" was invented by Jason Crabtree (Vienna, Va.) and Richard Kelley (Woodbridge, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method for the dynamic authentication revocation using privilege assurance of enterprise computer network environments using lateral movement detection and prevention. The system uses local session monitors to monitor logon sessions within a network, generating and verifying event logs and authentication records to ensure the legitimacy of authenticated user sessions and to revoke ...