ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,499,165, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to PURE STORAGE INC. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Profiling user activity to achieve social and governance objectives" was invented by Prakash Darji (Santa Clara, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Profiling user activity to achieve social and governance objectives, including: generating, based on data describing activities within a system, a plurality of activity groupings each including one or more user accounts and corresponding to a particular activity in the system; generating, for each of the plurality of activity groupings, one or more social groupings based on user profiles of the one or mor...