ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,587,545, issued on March 24, was assigned to Sophos Ltd. (Abingdon, Great Britain).
"Securing endpoints in a heterogenous enterprise network" was invented by Moritz Daniel Grimm (Bruchsal, Germany), Daniel Stutz (Karlsruhe, Germany), Andrew J. Thomas (Oxfordshire, Great Britain) and Kenneth D. Ray (Seattle).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Endpoints and a corresponding switch within a heterogeneous network work cooperatively to respond to notifications of compromise in order to protect the enterprise network. Endpoints self-isolate when a local security agent detects a compromise, and shun a compromised one of the other endpoints in respon...