US Patent Issued to STATE FARM MUTUAL AUTOMOBILE INSURANCE on Nov. 4 for "Generative artificial intelligence for a network security scanner" (Illinois, Oregon Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,461,841, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to STATE FARM MUTUAL AUTOMOBILE INSURANCE COMPANY (Bloomington, Ill.).

"Generative artificial intelligence for a network security scanner" was invented by Aaron Williams (Congerville, Ill.), Joseph Harr (Bloomington, Ill.), Scott T. Christensen (Salem, Ore.) and Ryan M. Gross (Normal, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer system for network security vulnerability inspection may include one or more processors configured to: transmit a prompt for network security vulnerability testing code to an ML chatbot (or voice bot) to cause an ML model to generate the network security vulnerability test...