ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,744,796, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Security action based on communication-based analysis" was invented by Doron Bar Shalom (Le Mont-sur-Lausanne, Switzerland), Andrey Karpovsky (Kiryat Motzkin, Israel) and Fady Copty (Haifa, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques are described herein that are capable of performing a security action based on a communication-based analysis. A security event, which is triggered by an operation performed by a user in an organization, is detected. A security analysis result is generated by determining whether a communication history of...