US Patent Issued to MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING on March 17 for "Ad-hoc graph processing for security explainability" (Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,579,278, issued on March 17, was assigned to MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Ad-hoc graph processing for security explainability" was invented by Leo Moreno Betthauser (Redmond, Wash.), Andrew White Wicker (Redmond, Wash.) and Bryan (Ning) Xia (Redmond, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed is a machine learning model architecture that leverages existing large language models to analyze log files for security vulnerabilities. In some configurations, log files are processed by an encoder machine learning model to generate embeddings. Embeddings generated by the encoder model are used to construct graphs. Th...