US Patent Issued to PLUME DESIGN on March 4 for "Intelligent and proactive device vulnerability detection and protection" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,244,628, issued on March 4, was assigned to PLUME DESIGN INC. (Palo Alto, Calif.).

"Intelligent and proactive device vulnerability detection and protection" was invented by Preeti Agarwal (Cupertino, Calif.) and William J. McFarland (Portola Valley, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "System and methods are provided for building intelligence around IoT devices that can prioritize an attack attack sphere, such that scanning and protection can be focused on risky spheres before others that may be less at risk. The attack spheres include specific device types, vendors, geographic locations, demographics, or organizations. Priority based v...