US Patent Issued to Tanium on April 22 for "System and method for prioritizing distributed system risk remediations" (American, German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,284,204, issued on April 22, was assigned to Tanium Inc. (Emeryville, Calif.).

"System and method for prioritizing distributed system risk remediations" was invented by Stefan Horst-Guenter Molls (Nuremberg, Germany), Joshua M. Bryant (Pecatonica, Ill.), Keith A. Robertson (Wasilla, Alaska) and John E. Foscue (Huntington Beach, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A server system obtains, for machines in a distributed system, system risk information, such as information identifying open sessions between respective users and respective machines, information identifying vulnerabilities in respective machines; and administrative rights info...