ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,375,519, issued on July 29, was assigned to Forescout Technologies Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Enhanced risk assessment" was invented by Keren Mina Semel (Tel Aviv, Israel) and Naor Kalbo (Givatayim, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, methods, and related technologies for determining a risk score or value are described. The risk score determination may include accessing network traffic from a network, where the network traffic is associated with a plurality of entities. One or more values associated with one or more properties associated with an entity are determined. The one or more values may be based on the network traffic. ...