ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,289,320, issued on April 29, was assigned to Recorded Future Inc. (Somerville, Mass.).

"Network security scoring" was invented by Staffan Truve (Alingsas, Sweden) and Bill Ladd (Watertown, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A network security system includes a network interface configured to connect to a public wide area network and a first malicious activity detection subsystem configured to extract from textual sources on the network different threat levels in a first threat category for addresses on the wide area network. One or more further malicious activity detection subsystems are configured to extract from textual sources on the...