ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,432,252, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Method and system for predicting malicious entities" was invented by Yoni Zukerman (Matan, Israel), Hani Hana Neuvirth (Tel-Aviv, Israel), Idan Belaiev (Hatzav, Israel), Dror Cohen (Tel-Aviv, Israel) and Miriam Weissler (Kiryat Ye'arim, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-implemented method, computer device and computer program are provided for training a Machine Learning model based on a plurality of signal records, each signal record comprising an entity identifier, a signal identifier and a timestamp. Signal records related...