ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,513,179, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to Evolve Security LLC (Chicago).

"Live exploitation feed on penetration testing portal" was invented by Paul Petefish (Chicago), Sam Harris (Lake Forest, Ill.), Tran Le (Chicago) and Ethan Vernon (Austin, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and a method for reporting penetration test results. The system identifying a vulnerability of a networked system by testing a target of the networked system. Assigning a risk level to the vulnerability. Activating, based on the risk level of the vulnerability, screen recording of a display device of a computing device of a tester. Receiving video da...