ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,301,626, issued on May 13, was assigned to QOMPLX LLC (Reston, Va.).

"Automatically computing and improving a cybersecurity risk score" was invented by Jason Crabtree (Vienna, Va.) and Andrew Sellers (Monument, Colo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Automatically computing and managing a cybersecurity risk score. The cybersecurity risk score and cyber-physical graph for a network are retrieved and analyzed to identify potential improvements that can be made to network topography and device configurations, changes are applied automatically and an updated cyber-physical graph reflecting the applied changes is produced, and the updated cyber-...