ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,664,278, issued on June 23, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Security threat mitigation" was invented by Tvisha Rajesh Gangwani (Philadelphia), Ramesh Chinta (Sammamish, Wash.), Sahil Sanjay Sanghvi (Seattle), Kimia Pourali (Redmond, Wash.), Michael Richard Yagley (Kirkland, Wash.), Shashank Yerramilli (Hyderabad, India) and Komal Darshil Pandya (Bengaluru, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides methods, systems and storage media for conducting a security review of a system. Certain examples relate to the use of trained generative AI to generating a root security query us...