US Patent Issued to RAPID7 on July 8 for "System for collecting computer network entity information employing abstract models" (Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,355,797, issued on July 8, was assigned to RAPID7 INC. (Boston).

"System for collecting computer network entity information employing abstract models" was invented by Allen D. Hadden (Stow, Mass.), Hugh Pyle (Salem, Mass.) and Kenneth Allen Rogers (Stow, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An entity tracking system and method for a computer network employs proactive data collection and enrichment driven by configurable rules and workflows responsive to the discovery of new entities, changes to existing entities, and specifics about the entities' attributes. The data collection is used in conjunction with graph technologies to map interac...