US Patent Issued to Saudi Arabian Oil on May 27 for "Cyber security assurance using 4D threat mapping of critical cyber assets" (Saudi Arabia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,316,665, issued on May 27, was assigned to Saudi Arabian Oil Co. (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

"Cyber security assurance using 4D threat mapping of critical cyber assets" was invented by John Gwilliams (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia) and Sultan Saadaldean Alsharif (Dammam, Saudi Arabia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods include a computer-implemented method for presenting a model of cybersecurity. Questionnaire answers corresponding to individual components of each of three elements contributing to cybersecurity risk and maturity for a computer system are received by a four-dimensional cybersecurity assurance model application. Three ...