ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,688,282, issued on July 21, was assigned to MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Malicious activity detection for cloud computing platforms" was invented by Shalom Shay Shavit (Yehud, Israel), Ram Haim Pliskin (Rishon Lezion, Israel) and Daniel Davraev (Or Yehuda, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Malicious activity detection is enabled for cloud computing platforms. A first log comprising a record of a first control plane operation executed by a cloud application associated with an entity is obtained. A plurality of second logs, each comprising a record of a respective second control plane operation executed in asso...