US Patent Issued to Palo Alto Networks on June 17 for "Automated matching of vulnerability data between vulnerability feeds" (Israeli, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,335,290, issued on June 17, was assigned to Palo Alto Networks Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Automated matching of vulnerability data between vulnerability feeds" was invented by Ariel M. Zelivansky (Mountain View, Calif.), Sharon Ben Zeev (Tel Aviv, Israel), Shaul Ben Hai (Petah Tikva, Israel) and Liron Levin (Kefar Sava, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system has been designed that examines details of a security advisory against informal vulnerability records. The system generates a vulnerability match confidence value based on comparison of different details in the security advisory against the informal vulnerability records. B...