US Patent Issued to BitSight Technologies on June 17 for "Systems and methods for rapidly generating security ratings" (Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,335,297, issued on June 17, was assigned to BitSight Technologies Inc. (Boston).

"Systems and methods for rapidly generating security ratings" was invented by Ethan Geil (Concord, Mass.) and Bryan Turcotte (Waltham, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for determining an entity's security rating may include a ratings engine and a security database. The security database may include a manifest and a distributed index containing security records. Each of the security records may have a key (e.g., a network identifier of a network asset) and a value (e.g., security information associated with the network asset identified by the key...