ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,621,336, issued on May 5, was assigned to Cisco Technology Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Systems and methods for addressing inconsistencies in attack paths" was invented by Hendrikus G. P. Bosch (Aalsmeer, Netherlands), Jeffrey Michael Napper (Delft, Netherlands), Andre Jean Marie Surcouf (Saint Leu la Foret, France) and Roee Yankelevsky (Haifa, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In one embodiment, a method includes receiving a plurality of records associated with a plurality of assets in a cloud system and one or more risks associated with one or more of the plurality of assets from one or more microservices, identifying one or more incons...