ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,380,374, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to Ivanti Inc. (South Jordan, Utah).

"Complex application attack quantification, testing, detection and prevention" was invented by Anand Paturi (Albuquerque, N.M.), Srinivas Mukkamala (Albuquerque, N.M.) and Caleb Hightower (Albuquerque, N.M.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus and method for cyber risk quantification calculated from the likelihood of a cyber-attack on the target enterprise and/or cyber ecosystem based on its security posture. The cyber-attack likelihood can be derived as a probability-based time-to-event (TTE) measure using survivor function analysis. The likelihood probab...