ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,388,852, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Detecting mass control plane operations" was invented by Andrey Karpovsky (Kiryat Motzkin, Israel), Ram Haim Pliskin (Rishon Lezion, Israel) and Evgeny Bogokovsky (Kfar-Saba, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, apparatuses, and computer-readable storage mediums described herein are configured to detect mass control plane operations, which may be indicative of anomalous (or malicious) behavior. For example, one or more logs that specify a plurality of access enablement operations performed with respect to an entity is rece...