US Patent Issued to MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING on Aug. 5 for "Natural language API for security graph exploration" (Israeli Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,380,096, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Natural language API for security graph exploration" was invented by Lior Ziv (Tel Aviv, Israel), Tamer Salman (Haifa, Israel), Idan Hen (Herzliya, Israel) and Amit Dvir Adani (Herzliya, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed are techniques for identifying security vulnerabilities in cloud computing resources. To investigate the configuration of cloud resources, a cloud map query is constructed based on a natural language sentence. In some configurations, a machine learning (ML) model converts the sentence to a structured sentence tha...