ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,417,292, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to Qualys Inc. (Foster City, Calif.).

"Quantification of security events using behavioral, analytical, and threat intelligence attributes" was invented by Ankur Sunil Tyagi (Foster City, Calif.) and Mayuresh Vishwas Dani (Fremont, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for testing a security object is disclosed. The system comprises processors and memory storing a plurality of security engines and instructions that, when executed by the processors, causes the system to: access a decision tree comprising a first node and a plurality of second nodes; link a first leaf node of the decision ...