ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,255,913, issued on March 18, was assigned to Qualys Inc. (Foster City, Calif.).

"Methods and systems for system vulnerability determination and utilization for threat mitigation" was invented by Mehul Krishnanand Revankar (Columbus, Ga.), Sumedh S. Thakar (Foster City, Calif.) and Anand Paturi (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed embodiments include receiving network data associated with a first system of a network. The network data may comprise first data, second data, third data, fourth data, fifth data, and sixth data. The method may quantify, the first data, the second data, the third data, the fourth data, the fi...