US Patent Issued to Microsoft Technology Licensing on April 29 for "Security finding categories-based prioritization" (Israeli Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,289,335, issued on April 29, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Security finding categories-based prioritization" was invented by Jonathan Gazit (Tel Aviv, Israel), Moshe Israel (Ramat-Gan, Israel) and Dotan Patrich (Kfar Saba, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Some embodiments bridge a gap between focusing on security alerts raised by conditions and events that have already occurred, and focusing on vulnerabilities that might be exploited in the future. Alerts are organized into alert categories, vulnerabilities are organized into vulnerability categories, and are optionally supplemented with miscon...