ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,413,603, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to LogRhythm Inc. (Broomfield, Colo.).

"Risk based priority processing of data" was invented by Christopher L. Petersen (Boulder, Colo.) and Mark Vankempen (Boulder, Colo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Utilities (e.g., methods, systems, apparatuses, etc.) for use in generating and making use of priority scores for data generated by one or more data systems that more accurately prioritize those events and other pieces of data to be addressed by analysts and troubleshooters before others (e.g., collectively taking into account threats posed by origin host components and risks to impacted host comp...