ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,316,685, issued on May 27, was assigned to Expel Inc. (Herndon, Va.).

"Systems and methods for intelligent analysis and deployment of cybersecurity assets in a cybersecurity threat detection and mitigation platform" was invented by Jane Hung (Raleigh, N.C.) and Elisabeth Weber (Herndon, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method for deploying cybersecurity resources includes sourcing cybersecurity operations data that includes a plurality of distinct datasets derived from a handling of a target cybersecurity event; extracting, from the cybersecurity operations data, at least cybersecurity task feature data relating to a plura...