ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,326,941, issued on June 10, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Dynamic prioritization of vulnerability exclusion renewals" was invented by Johnny Al Shaieb (Cypress, Texas), Michael Redford (Wentzville, Mo.), Jason A. Nikolai (Rochester, Minn.), Jason Bornheimer (Spring, Texas), Steven Ocepek (Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio), Robert Maier (Milliken, Colo.), Christopher Bedell (Brooklyn, N.Y.) and Seth Grey Glasgow (Akron, Ohio).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-implemented method for prioritizing exclusion renewal records is disclosed. The computer-implemented method includes determining vulnerability fac...