ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,301,610, issued on May 13, was assigned to McAfee LLC (San Jose, Calif.).

"Security risk evaluation across user devices" was invented by Rahul Deshpande (Santa Clara, Calif.), German Lancioni (Santa Clara, Calif.) and Celeste Fralick (Santa Clara, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Security risk evaluation across user devices is disclosed herein. An example method includes identifying a user and one or more devices associated with the user, collecting information identifying applications used by the user on the one or more devices, determining respective security sub-scores for each item of the one or more devices, computing an overal...