ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,273,350, issued on April 8, was assigned to Target Brands Inc. (Minneapolis).

"Dynamic grouping of users in an enterprise and watch list generation based on user risk scoring" was invented by Adam Blake (Minneapolis) and Paul Hutelmyer (Minneapolis).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed are techniques for identifying users within an enterprise who pose heightened security risks to the enterprise. A method can include receiving, by a computing system, information about users in the enterprise, grouping the users into groups based on at least one grouping feature and the user information, the at least one grouping feature including, for ...