ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,438,902, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to Rapid7 Inc. (Boston).

"Event-driven monitoring of resources in a cloud computing environment" was invented by Dylan Martin (Belfast, Great Britain), Austin Lee (Pasadena, Calif.), Trever Allen McKee (Shafter, Calif.), James Andrew Green (Hidden Hills, Calif.) and Chris DeRamus (Ashburn, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for event driven harvesting and analysis of cloud computing resources in a cloud computing environment, comprising: obtaining, from a cloud computing environment, data related to an event that occurred in the cloud computing environment; in response to obtaining the da...