US Patent Issued to Microsoft Technology Licensing on March 17 for "Inheriting security risks for cloud entities in a cloud computing system" (Israeli Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,580,944, issued on March 17, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Inheriting security risks for cloud entities in a cloud computing system" was invented by Daniel Davraev (Or Yehudal, Israel), Josef Weizman (Haifa, Israel) and Ram Haim Pliskin (Rishon Lezion, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosure focuses on using a risk inheritance system to actively prevent unauthorized and compromising activity within a cloud computing system by causing user risk scores to be inherited across downstream cloud entities within the cloud computing system. The risk inheritance system ensures that users with ...