ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,568,121, issued on March 3, was assigned to Rapid7 Inc. (Boston).

"Generating configuration change event stream for event-driven assessment of resources" was invented by Barry McLarnon (Lisburn, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A configuration change assessment pipeline is disclosed, executable to assess a continuous stream of resource configuration changes in a cloud-based computer network for security policy violations. In embodiments, the system executes assessment nodes that are configurable to monitor the input stream for specific change events, identify a set of related resources that should be assessed as result of a c...