US Patent Issued to CrowdStrike on Feb. 10 for "CPE prediction using banner-prompted AI/ML modeling" (Oregon, Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,549,590, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to CrowdStrike Inc. (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

"CPE prediction using banner-prompted AI/ML modeling" was invented by Shaefer Drew (Redmond, Ore.) and Michael Avraham Brautbar (Groton, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Prediction of CPEs using banners greatly improves computer functioning. Many web services have an unknown common platform enumeration (CPE). When the CPE is unknown, a computer system is unable to obtain cybersecurity flaws and software fixes for a software product or web service. A CPE, though, is predicted by banner-prompting an AI/ML model using a web service banner. Once the CPE is ...