ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,476,997, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to RTX BBN TECHNOLOGIES INC. (Cambridge, Mass.).

"Systems and methods for evaluating cyber assets" was invented by Michael Hassan Atighetchi (Framingham, Mass.), Stephane Yannick Blais (Framingham, Mass.) and Katarzyna Lucja Olejnik (Brookline, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for evaluating cyber assets are disclosed. A system obtains, from data sources in an experimental environment, raw data generated in response to execution of a cyber asset. The system generates, from the raw data, at least one instance model corresponding to the data sources. The at least one instance model in...