ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,489,792, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Service risk discovery based on risk objects" was invented by Bhaskar Sen (Redmond, Wash.), Jean-Simon Marrocco (Laval, Canada), Nikhil Gopal (Redmond, Wash.), Neil Thistlethwaite (Redmond, Wash.) and Erik Robert Swanson (Woodinville, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The described technology provides a service risk discovery system for recommending, for a cloud based service sharing the service group hierarchy, a predetermined number of top risk observations based on the ranking of the one or more of the risk observations. The system gener...