US Patent Issued to Rapid7 on Feb. 3 for "Complementary scan engine scheme" (Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,541,601, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to Rapid7 Inc. (Boston).

"Complementary scan engine scheme" was invented by Ian Horbatiuk (Toronto) and Paul Miseiko (Mississauga, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various embodiments include systems and methods to implement a complementary scan engine scheme for avoiding redundant vulnerability check data collection when using a scan engine to scan a target asset. The implementation may include determining a set of potential vulnerability checks for scanning the target asset using the scan engine. Fingerprint data indicating which versions of software are installed on the target asset may be c...