ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,346,451, issued on July 1, was assigned to RELIAQUEST HOLDINGS LLC (Tampa, Fla.).

"Threat mitigation system and method" was invented by Brian P. Murphy (Tampa, Fla.), Joe Partlow (Tampa, Fla.), Colin O'Connor (Tampa, Fla.) and Jason Pfeiffer (Tampa, Fla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-implemented method, computer program product and computing system for: obtaining consolidated platform information for a computing platform to identify one or more deployed security-relevant subsystems; processing the consolidated platform information to identify one or more non-deployed security-relevant subsystems; generating a list of ranked & ...