ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,609,947, issued on April 21, was assigned to Rapid7 Inc. (Boston).

"Security service platform for rule matching" was invented by Luke Coughlan (Galway, Ireland), Gianni Tedesco (Seoul, South Korea), Morgan Nally (Galway, Ireland) and Sai Krishna Lakshminarayanan (Galway, Ireland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various embodiments include systems and methods pertaining to a security service platform that detects security threats based on a security service that operates on structurally deduplicated network data. The security service platform, based on using the structure, or data model, of data being deduplicated, generates structurally d...