US Patent Issued to Arizona Board of Regents on Behalf of Arizona State University on Oct. 7 for "Systems and methods for predicting which software vulnerabilities will be exploited by malicious hackers to prioritize for patching" (Arizona Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,436,827, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to Arizona Board of Regents on Behalf of Arizona State University (Tempe, Ariz.).

"Systems and methods for predicting which software vulnerabilities will be exploited by malicious hackers to prioritize for patching" was invented by Paulo Shakarian (Tempe, Ariz.), Mohammed Almukaynizi (Tempe, Ariz.), Jana Shakarian (Tempe, Ariz.), Eric Nunes (Tempe, Ariz.), Krishna Dharaiya (Tempe, Ariz.), Manoj Balasubramaniam Senguttuvan (Tempe, Ariz.) and Alexander Grimm (Tempe, Ariz.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various embodiments for predicting which software vulnerabilities will be exploited by malicious hac...