ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,425,440, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to Tanium Inc. (Emeryville, Calif.).

"Assessment of the enterprise network of another organization" was invented by Samrudh Rajachudamani (Chicago), Christopher Horn (Rochester, N.Y.), Daniel Varga (Rolesville, N.C.) and Christopher Nabkey (Ada, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A cloud service to facilitate performance by a first organization of an assessment of an enterprise network of a second organization is described. According to one aspect, the cloud service performs the following operations with approval from the second organization. Specifically, the cloud service causes client softw...