ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,699,778, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to CrowdStrike Inc. (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

"Risk scoring using supervised machine learning" was invented by Christopher Balles (San Diego), Kellen Arb (Austin, Texas), Michael Cosmadelis (Mount Laurel, N.J.), Sean Corlin (Upland, Calif.) and Jeremy Fintel (Austin, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for using supervised machine learning to train risk models used to analyze group data for security risks are discussed herein. A system can receive a user input identifying risk values associated with categories or attributes of a group having access to computing resources. The system can use t...