ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,488,117, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to Rapid7 Inc. (Boston).

"Systems and methods for determining current risk of cybersecurity vulnerabilities" was invented by Christiaan Beek (Kesteren, Netherlands).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for analyzing cybersecurity vulnerabilities in a computing environment, including: using at least one computer hardware processor to perform: (A) identifying a first cybersecurity vulnerability associated with a resource in the computing environment; (B) obtaining data related to one or more factors related to risk posed by the first cybersecurity vulnerability, the one or more factors including a...