ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,361,136, issued on July 15, was assigned to MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Identification of a resource attack path by connecting code, configuration, and telemetry" was invented by Karen Lowe Dahmen (Sammamish, Wash.) and George Wilburn (Austin, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Computing resources deployed on the cloud can be susceptible to different types of malicious attacks based on vulnerabilities introduced in computer program instructions that define the computing resources. To address these types of attacks, methods, systems, apparatuses, and computer-readable storage mediums are described for identifyi...