ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,671,997, issued on June 30, was assigned to SOPHOS Ltd. (Abingdon, Great Britain).

"Elevated security execution mode for network-accessible devices" was invented by Dmitry Samosseiko (Vancouver, Canada), Fraser Peter Howard (Oxford, Great Britain), Michael David Wood (Vancouver, Canada), Andrew James Thomas (Abingdon, Great Britain), Benjamin James Humphrey (Norfolk, Great Britain), Xiaochuan Zhang (Abingdon, Great Britain), Paul Barrie Ducklin (Oxford, Great Britain) and Anand Ajjan (New Westminster, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various aspects related to methods, systems, and computer readable media for detection and blocking ...