ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,400,233, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to SPLUNK LLC (San Jose, Calif.).

"Risk analysis using risk definition relationships" was invented by Gleb Esman (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various embodiments of the present invention set forth techniques for monitoring risk in a computing system. The technique includes creating one or more risk objects, where each risk object of the one or more risk objects has a corresponding stored risk definition, the stored risk definition associating the risk object with raw machine data pertaining to the risk object, the raw machine data reflecting activity in an information technology (...