ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,556,562, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to Sophos Ltd. (Abingdon, Great Britain).
"Deduplication of endpoint connections" was invented by Jonathan Francis Caine (Abingdon, Great Britain), Ryan Elliot Mills (East Yorkshire, Great Britain), Mohamed Khalid Mahmoud Abdalla Dewidar (Oxfordshire, Great Britain), Timothy Rayment (Abingdon, Great Britain) and Mangal Rakesh Vankadaru (Buckinghamshire, Great Britain).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In an enterprise network with a threat management facility that manages individual endpoints based on unique endpoint identifiers, each new compute instance connecting to the threat management facility (...