ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,526,303, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to Darktrace Holdings Ltd. (Cambridge, Great Britain).

"Intelligent prioritization of assessment and remediation of common vulnerabilities and exposures for network nodes" was invented by Matthew Dunn (Ely, Great Britain), Maximilian Florian Thomas Heinemeyer (Lower Saxony, Germany), Jake Lal (Cambridge, Great Britain) and Carl Joseph Salji (Bedford, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The node exposure score generator and the attack path modeling component are configured to cooperate to analyze the actual detected vulnerabilities that exist for that network node in the network, the impor...