ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,580,951, issued on March 17, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Entity maliciousness analysis using autonomous artificial intelligence agents" was invented by Naveed Azeemi Ahmad (Medford, Mass.), Lloyd Geoffrey Greenwald (Murray Hill, N.J.), Muhammed Fatih Bulut (Cambridge, Mass.), Yingqi Liu (San Jose, Calif.) and Acar Tamersoy (Culver City, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques are described herein that are capable of performing entity maliciousness analysis using autonomous AI agents. A first autonomous AI agent selects relevant data from a corpus of data using a first selected AI tool i...