US Patent Issued to Microsoft Technology Licensing on Dec. 30 for "Automated remediation of exposed secrets" (American, Australian, Kenyan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,511,430, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Automated remediation of exposed secrets" was invented by Michael Christopher Fanning (Redmond, Wash.), Nicolas Yves Couraud (Westwood, Mass.), Jacek Andrzej Czerwonka (Sammamish, Wash.), Christopher Michael Henry Faucon (Redmond, Wash.), Yingting Yu (Sydney), Etan Micah Basseri (Seattle), Floyd Odiwuor K'otohoyoh (Nairobi, Kenya) and Jacek Ernest Lichwa (Seattle).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for identifying an exposed credential that, if used, would provide access to a resource are disclosed. The techniques enable the resource t...