US Patent Issued to Microsoft Technology Licensing on May 13 for "Distributed hardware vulnerability identification and resolution" (Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,301,540, issued on May 13, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Distributed hardware vulnerability identification and resolution" was invented by Riley Joseph McKenna (Sammamish, Wash.), Kevin Matthew Martin (Seattle) and Kristopher Michael Thomas (Issaquah, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various embodiments herein include distributed hardware vulnerability identification and resolution. One method embodiment includes conducting an inventory of devices on a network and generating a queue of scanning jobs for each inventoried device to discover possible modes of network entry via each device. The met...