ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,619,716, issued on May 5, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Multivariate threat detection for a CI/CD pipeline" was invented by David Trigano (Tel Aviv, Israel) and Moshe Israel (Redmond, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Example solutions protect a continuous integration/continuous deployment (CI/CD) pipeline. Examples collect data from a CI/CD pipeline execution data source and/or a CI/CD pipeline task data source. Based on the collected data, a feature group comprising a plurality of records is created. Each record in the feature group represents an execution of the CI/CD pipeline. An anomaly score...