ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,563,081, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to Micro Focus LLC (Austin, Texas).

"Definition and extension of stories of core entities and calculation of risk scores thereof" was invented by Stephan Fong-Jau Jou (Richmond Hill, Canada), Maria Pospelova (Ottawa) and Michael John Cyze (Kincardine, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Core entities are each defined as a subset of base entities that satisfy one or more core entity connection relationships. Base stories are each defined as a subset of core entities that satisfy one or more story connection relationships. A risk score of each core entity is calculated based on previously calculat...