US Patent Issued to ServiceNow on July 29 for "Data risk of an instance" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,373,596, issued on July 29, was assigned to ServiceNow Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Data risk of an instance" was invented by Timothy John Clark (Carlsbad, Calif.) and Michal Shalmoni (Livermore, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Each instance environment of a plurality of computing instance environments is associated with its corresponding set of users belonging to one or more user groups, its corresponding processes, and its corresponding data access privileges. For at least one of the computing instance environments, database tables accessible by the corresponding computing instance environment are analyzed to determine whether ea...