Patents by Inventor Derek Edward Thomas

Derek Edward Thomas has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Publication number: 20260058976
    Abstract: Disclosed are systems and methods for identifying threat events in an enterprise network and managing detection rules and responses to the events. A threat intelligence computer system can receive information about a detected threat event including a phase of attack and a detected domain of the threat event, apply at least one tag to the detected event that associates the event with at least one of the rules triggered in response to detecting the event, evaluate the tagged rules against the information, flag the event as having an improvement opportunity, determine whether the rule tagged to the event is a candidate for improvement, generate, based on the determination, instructions for improving the rule, generate a prioritization scheme indicating an order to address the instructions to improve the rule amongst instructions to improve various threat detection rules, and generate and return output indicating the prioritization scheme for presentation at user devices.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 4, 2025
    Publication date: February 26, 2026
    Inventors: Derek Edward Thomas, Kelsey Helms
  • Patent number: 12489774
    Abstract: Disclosed are systems and methods for identifying threat events in an enterprise network and managing detection rules and responses to the events. A threat intelligence computer system can receive information about a detected threat event including a phase of attack and a detected domain of the threat event, apply at least one tag to the detected event that associates the event with at least one of the rules triggered in response to detecting the event, evaluate the tagged rules against the information, flag the event as having an improvement opportunity, determine whether the rule tagged to the event is a candidate for improvement, generate, based on the determination, instructions for improving the rule, generate a prioritization scheme indicating an order to address the instructions to improve the rule amongst instructions to improve various threat detection rules, and generate and return output indicating the prioritization scheme for presentation at user devices.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 27, 2023
    Date of Patent: December 2, 2025
    Assignee: Target Brands, Inc.
    Inventors: Derek Edward Thomas, Kelsey Helms
  • Publication number: 20250141896
    Abstract: Disclosed are systems and methods for identifying threat events in an enterprise network and managing detection rules and responses to the events. A threat intelligence computer system can receive information about a detected threat event including a phase of attack and a detected domain of the threat event, apply at least one tag to the detected event that associates the event with at least one of the rules triggered in response to detecting the event, evaluate the tagged rules against the information, flag the event as having an improvement opportunity, determine whether the rule tagged to the event is a candidate for improvement, generate, based on the determination, instructions for improving the rule, generate a prioritization scheme indicating an order to address the instructions to improve the rule amongst instructions to improve various threat detection rules, and generate and return output indicating the prioritization scheme for presentation at user devices.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 27, 2023
    Publication date: May 1, 2025
    Inventors: Derek Edward Thomas, Kelsey Helms
  • Patent number: 4120681
    Abstract: Glass is thermally treated by contacting the glass with a gas-fluidized particulate material of non-compacted particle structure which is such that the apparent density of the particles is less than the actual density of the material forming the particles. The buoyant particles constitute a gas-fluidized bed in a quiescent uniformly expanded state of particular fluidization, and the material of the particles and the temperature of the bed are selected so that the heat transfer coefficient of the bed is sufficient to produce a desired thermal treatment, for example thermal toughening of hot glass.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 8, 1977
    Date of Patent: October 17, 1978
    Assignee: Pilkington Brothers Limited
    Inventors: Raymond Peter Cross, Derek Edward Thomas