ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,445,467, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to Zscaler Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Entitlement-based identity power scoring system for cloud environments" was invented by Shoham Danino (Tel-Aviv, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for providing an identity power scoring system for cloud environments. Various embodiments include collecting entitlement information associated with a user of a cloud environment; deriving a global power score of the identity, the global power score being based on the identity's entitlements in the cloud environment; and providing the global power score to security administrators of the cloud...