US Patent Issued to International Business Machines on Aug. 12 for "Combining policy compliance and vulnerability management for risk assessment" (Ohio, New York, Rhode Island, Connecticut Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,386,970, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Combining policy compliance and vulnerability management for risk assessment" was invented by Muhammed Faith Bulut (West Greenwich, R.I.), Abdulhamid Adebowale Adebayo (White Plains, N.Y.), Lilian Mathias Ngweta (Troy, N.Y.), Ting Dai (Elmsford, N.Y.), Constantin Mircea Adam (Fairfield, Conn.), Daby Mousse Sow (Croton on Hudson, N.Y.) and Steven Ocepek (Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus, a method, and a computer program product are provided that combine policy compliance with vulnerability management to provid...