US Patent Issued to AT&T Intellectual Property II on July 1 for "Predicting and using threat levels for cyber threats using data from public data sources" (New Jersey Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,348,550, issued on July 1, was assigned to AT&T Intellectual Property II LP (Atlanta).

"Predicting and using threat levels for cyber threats using data from public data sources" was invented by Samuel Kraus (Colonia, N.J.), Laurie Kraus (Old Bridge, N.J.), James Cignarella (Millstone Township, N.J.), James Brunner (Holmdel, N.J.) and Krissa Van Hoorebeke (Holmdel, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Predicting and using threat levels for cyber threats using data from public data sources can include obtaining cyber vulnerability and threat data ("threat data") from publicly available data sources including a social networking service, the ...