ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,316,667, issued on May 27, was assigned to CrowdStrike Inc. (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

"Risk scoring of cloud permission assignments using supervised machine learning" was invented by Robert Molony (Oakland, Calif.), Michael Brautbar (Wayland, Mass.), Manu Nandan (Frisco, Texas) and Ciaran O'Brien (Astoria, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for calculating risk scores of entity assignments are discussed herein. The system generates a probability matrix using a collaborative filtering technique such as singular value decomposition. The probability matrix is populated with probability values for each entity representing a probabilit...