US Patent Issued to Crowdstrike on Jan. 13 for "Assessing computer system vulnerabilities and exposures" (Virginia, Florida Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,524,551, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to Crowdstrike Inc. (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

"Assessing computer system vulnerabilities and exposures" was invented by Timothy Stiller (Strasburg, Va.) and Brandon Stoy (Tampa, Fla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Assessing computer system vulnerabilities and exposures by periodically querying data sources to gather information pertaining to computing system vulnerabilities and exposures (CVEs), such as, for each CVE, an identification of the CVE, a number of corresponding references to the CVE, and a number of code repositories that can be used to exploit the CVE. Compiling a datastore of the informat...