ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,341,785, issued on June 24, was assigned to Cybereason Inc. (Boston).

"Systems and methods for asset-based severity scoring and protection therefrom" was invented by Joshua East Domagalski (Tokyo), Samuel Curry (North Andover, Mass.) and Yonatan Striem-Amit (McLean, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are provided to determine a maliciousness level of an element using a hypergraph of neighbors. The method can include receiving the element; generating a hypergraph of neighbor target elements found in a database, the hypergraph comprising a set of nodes and a set of edges, wherein the set of nodes represents the neighbor...