ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,438,900, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to Kenna Security LLC (Chicago).

"Risk-based vulnerability remediation timeframe recommendations" was invented by Michael Roytman (Chicago), Edward T. Bellis (Evanston, Ill.) and Jason Rolleston (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for computing times to remediate for asset vulnerabilities are described herein. In an embodiment, a server computer receives first vulnerability data for a plurality of entities identifying asset vulnerabilities and timing data corresponding to the vulnerability data indicating an amount of time between identification of an asset vulnerabi...