ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,259,972, issued on March 25, 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.), Jason Pfeiffer (Tampa, Fla.) and Brian Philip Murphy (St. Petersburg, Fla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-implemented method, computer program product and computing system for: a computer-implemented method is executed on a computing device and includes: obtaining object information concerning one or more initial objects within a computing platform in response to a security event; identifying an event ty...