US Patent Issued to AttackIQ on Sept. 2 for "Method for generating attack graphs based on Markov chains" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,407,710, issued on Sept. 2, was assigned to AttackIQ Inc. (San Diego).

"Method for generating attack graphs based on Markov chains" was invented by Stephen Lincoln (San Diego), Rajesh Sharma (San Diego), Jeremy Miller (San Diego), Stephan Chenette (San Diego) and Albert Lopez (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method includes: generating a transition probability matrix defining a set of transition probabilities for a set of techniques, each transition probability representing a probability of transitioning from a technique i to a technique j; defining a set of emission probability vectors corresponding to the set of techniques, ...