ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,499,242, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to ROBERT BOSCH GMBH (Stuttgart, Germany).

"Method for ascertaining a relevance of security-relevant vulnerabilities of a product" was invented by Paulius Duplys (Markgroeningen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for ascertaining a relevance of security-relevant vulnerabilities of a product. The method includes the following steps which are carried out automatically: providing a terms specification which includes terms for specifying the vulnerabilities; providing a product profile of the product, which specifies the product on the basis of the terms in the terms specification; provi...