US Patent Issued to EVERYTHING SET on Sept. 2 for "Prediction of network vulnerability of a user's network-connected smart device using crowdsourced vulnerability profiles" (New York, Illinois, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,407,705, issued on Sept. 2, was assigned to EVERYTHING SET INC. (Berkeley, Calif.).

"Prediction of network vulnerability of a user's network-connected smart device using crowdsourced vulnerability profiles" was invented by Michael D. Melnick (Brighton, N.Y.), David L Knudsen (Saint Helena, Calif.) and Alyssa J. Kersey (Chicago).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Network vulnerability is predicted for a user's network-connected smart device, wherein the user's network-connected smart device has one or more device classifications. A memory stores a plurality of crowdsourced vulnerability profiles generated from individual vulnerability profiles...