Patents by Inventor William M. Nicholas

William M. Nicholas 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: 20240155007
    Abstract: A method and system for detecting malicious threat activity or event sequences is disclosed. In an embodiment, the method may include receiving security data from a plurality of data sources and normalizing the security data. The method may include generating one or more statistical profiles for one or more entities based on the normalized data. The method may include generating one or more detectors based on one or more subsequences organized in a plurality of threat chains. The method may include monitoring, via the one or more detectors, telemetric data in real time for the one or more subsequences. The method may include aggregating each detected one or more subsequences. The method may include generating a score based on a correlation of aggregated detected subsequences to the one or more statistical profiles. The method may include, if the score of exceeds a threshold, generating a high severity alert.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 3, 2022
    Publication date: May 9, 2024
    Inventors: Radoslaw Gasiorek, John M. Nicholas, Raul Garcia Calvo, William Brad Arndt, Ryan Marcotte
  • Patent number: 4432158
    Abstract: This invention is a simulated bird in hovering flight, including a bird figurine having spread wings and a tail forming three spaced-apart counterweights for a beak of the figurine, which is rested upon an upper end of an upright post.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 1983
    Date of Patent: February 21, 1984
    Inventor: William M. Nicholas