ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,430,427, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Methods, systems and computer programs for detecting potentially suspicious resource access events" was invented by Daniel Davraev (Or Yehuda, Israel), Shalom Shay Shavit (Yehud, Israel) and Ram Haim Pliskin (Rishon Le Tzion, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A recovery instruction pertaining to a resource is detected. The recovery instruction is matched with a delete instruction that caused the resource to enter a soft-deleted. A mismatch between a first user account associated with the recovery instruction and a second user account a...