ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,506,751, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to Arbor Networks Inc. (Westford, Mass.).

"Method and system for scoring severity of cyber attacks" was invented by Amogh N. Joshi (Pune, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer method and system for determining a threat level score for a detected network attack. Network data is received having a detected network attack, which is then analyzed to determine metadata associated with the network attack. The determined metadata associated with the network attack is analyzed to determine: 1) an attack objective component; 2) an attack method component; and 3) an attack execution component, each...