US Patent Issued to Palo Alto Networks on Sept. 30 for "Network tailored vulnerability impact assessment" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,432,248, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to Palo Alto Networks Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Network tailored vulnerability impact assessment" was invented by Ali Parandehgheibi (Menlo Park, Calif.), Gaurav Sharma (Mountain View, Calif.), Alina Asish Rath (San Francisco), Christopher Nicholas Ganas (Glen Allen, Calif.), Anupam Bharali (San Jose, Calif.) and Suresh Venkataraman (Tracy, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system as disclosed herein analyzes unresolved vulnerabilities against current configurations of devices of a network to generate an impact analysis report which provides a comprehensive view of the impact of the vul...