ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,500,931, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to Zscaler Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Risk mitigation effectiveness score of network security services" was invented by Rubin Azad (San Jose, Calif.), Jithin Prajeev Nair (San Jose, Calif.), Deepen Desai (San Ramon, Calif.), Chakkaravarthy Periyasamy Balaiah (San Jose, Calif.), Karthikeyan Thamilarasu (Cumming, Ga.), Shanghao Chen (Burnaby, Canada) and Tejveer Singh (Atlanta).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are provided for evaluating the effectiveness of network security tools for mitigating network security risks. According to one implementation, a method includes the step of an...