ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,719,885, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to Sophos Inc. (Dallas).

"Systems and methods for detecting malicious events" was invented by Radoslaw Gasiorek (Edingburgh, Great Britain), John M. Nicholas (Fairfax, Va.) and Raul Garcia Calvo (Seville, Spain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and system for detecting malicious threat activity or event sequences is disclosed. In an embodiment, the method may include generating one or more malicious sequence detection rules defined in a domain specific language. The method may include generating a rules repository configured to receive and store one or more pre-defined rules and one or more ...