ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,299,139, issued on May 13, was assigned to LEMA LABS LTD (Tel Aviv, Israel).

"Assessment of security risk from an external computing environment" was invented by Tomer Roizman (Tel Aviv, Israel), Eduard Dovzhik (Kfar Saba, Israel), Omer Yehudai (Tel Aviv, Israel), Amitai Frey (Tel Aviv, Israel) and Gal Tashma (Tel Aviv, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "There is provided a computer implemented method of assessing a real time security risk from an external computing environment interfacing with a target computing environment, comprising: identifying a plurality of values of a plurality of risk metrics indicative of a security risk fro...