ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,445,466, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to Qualys Inc. (Foster City, Calif.).

"Asset remediation trend map generation and utilization for threat mitigation" was invented by Ankur S. Tyagi (Foster City, Calif.) and Mayuresh Vishwas Dani (Fremont, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to methods, systems, and computer program products for generating an asset remediation trend map used in remediating against an attack campaign. The method comprises receiving attack kill chain data. The attack kill chain data comprises steps for executing an attack campaign on one or more assets associated with a computing dev...