US Patent Issued to BitSight Technologies on March 24 for "Methods for using organizational behavior for risk ratings" (Massachusetts, New Hampshire Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,587,555, issued on March 24, was assigned to BitSight Technologies Inc. (Boston).

"Methods for using organizational behavior for risk ratings" was invented by Philip John Steuart Gladstone (Carlisle, Mass.), Alan Joseph Kirby (Hollis, N.H.), John Matthew Truelove (Cambridge, Mass.), David Feinzeig (Stoneham, Mass.), Nagarjuna Venna (Waltham, Mass.) and Stephen Boyer (Waltham, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Among other things, traces are received of activities of an online user who is associated with an entity. By analysis of the traces a security state of the entity is inferred. Also, a map is generated between (a) technical asset...