ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,711,225, issued on Aug. 18, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Entity risk assessment" was invented by Yaniv Melamed (Herzelia, Israel) and Jonatan Zukerman (Herzelia, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-implemented method includes receiving a plurality of security signals relating to at least one entity. A string is generated based on the plurality of security signals, the string including a name of each security signal and a timestamp of each security signal. The string is input to a trained embedding model and in response an embedding vector corresponding to the string is received. The e...