ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,771,703, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to ServiceNow Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Determining the impact of malicious processes in it infrastructure" was invented by Shay Herzog (Ra'anana, Israel), Aakash Umeshbhai Bhagat (Bangalore, India), Olga Zateikin (Petah Tikva, Israel), Robert Bitterfeld (Petah Tikva, Israel) and Asaf Garty (Sdei Hemed, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and system for detecting malicious activities in an IT infrastructure, determining its impact to the IT infrastructure, and determining the associated remedial actions are disclosed. Data communication between a plurality of computer processes is tr...