ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,250,240, issued on March 11, was assigned to Cymotive Technologies Ltd. (Tel Aviv-Jaffa, Israel).

"Systems and methods for assessing risk in networked vehicle components" was invented by Mordechay Sorani (Rishot Lezion, Israel) and Amir Sharon (Tel Mond, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosure relates to systems and methods for determining a cyber risk level of an asset node associated with one or more functional aspects of a vehicle and assessing a node vulnerability score. Specifically, the disclosure relates to systems and methods of identifying, analyzing, and remediating vulnerabilities of networked vehicle components ...