ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,476,996, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to Rapid7 Inc. (Boston).

"Techniques for visualizing network attack paths" was invented by Val Komarov (Fairfax, Va.) and Thomas Riley (Boston).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An example method includes using at least one computer hardware processor to perform: identifying one or more vulnerable network resources in a plurality of network resources, each of the one or more vulnerable network resources having at least one respective security vulnerability; accessing at least one portion of a relational representation of a set of network resources in the plurality of network resources, identifying, us...