ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,231,448, issued on Feb. 18, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Using graph enrichment to detect a potentially malicious access attempt" was invented by Shay Chriba Sakazi (Beer Sheva, Israel), Andrey Karpovsky (Kiryat Motzkin, Israel), Amit Magen Medina (Netanya, Israel) and Tamer Salman (Haifa, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques are described herein that are capable of using graph enrichment to detect a potentially malicious access attempt. A graph that includes nodes and configuration-based links is generated. The nodes represent respective resources. Behavior-based links are added to th...