US Patent Issued to Rapid7 on Aug. 12 for "Predicting a probability associated with an unexploited vulnerability" (Massachusetts Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,388,858, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to Rapid7 Inc. (Boston).

"Predicting a probability associated with an unexploited vulnerability" was invented by Wah-Kwan Lin (Melrose, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A server determines vulnerabilities associated with components of a computing device. The server determines attributes associated with individual vulnerabilities. The server determines a subset of the vulnerabilities that includes unexploited vulnerabilities. The server executes a machine learning model to predict a probability of an exploit being created for a particular unexploited vulnerability in the subset. The server send...