ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,580,940, issued on March 17, was assigned to Salesforce Inc. (San Francisco).

"Security assessment of services being migrated to a cloud platform" was invented by Kaushal Bansal (Pleasanton, Calif.) and Prabhat Singh (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system performs security assessment of services, for example, services being migrated from first party datacenters to virtual datacenters configured on a cloud platform. The system receives information describing risk profiles of services. The system performs clustering of the services and uses the clusters of services for determining security assessment categories for new ...