ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,587,540, issued on March 24, was assigned to Sonrai Security Inc. (New York).

"Cloud security platform with contextual hot-spot permissions analytics" was invented by Veranika Hadun (Fredericton, Canada), William Bird (Fredericton, Canada) and Ben Wuest (Fredericton, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A network-accessible service provides an enterprise with a view of identity and data activity in the enterprise's cloud accounts. The service enables cloud provider management models to be normalized with centralized analytics and views across cloud accounts. Based on identity and audit data received from a set of cloud deployments, and...