ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,294,580, issued on May 6, was assigned to CrowdStrike Inc. (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

"Directory service recommender assessment and scoring" was invented by Brenden Thomas Bishop (San Marcos, Calif.) and Michael Avraham Brautbar (Wayland, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A cybersecurity service assesses, scores, and/or prioritizes activities associated with a directory service. When the directory service is requested to change a directory service assignment, the directory service may first request a verdict from the cybersecurity service. The cybersecurity service may use profiling and/or machine learning to predict directory service assig...