US Patent Issued to Tenable on Jan. 28 for "Rule-based assignment of criticality scores to assets and generation of a criticality rules table" (Irish, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 29 -- United States Patent no. 12,212,597, issued on Jan. 28, was assigned to Tenable Inc. (Columbia, Md.).

"Rule-based assignment of criticality scores to assets and generation of a criticality rules table" was invented by Barry Sheridan (Dublin), Vincent Gilcreest (Leopardstown, Ireland), Anthony Bettini (Lexington, Mass.), Matthew Ray Everson (Appleton, Wis.), Wei Tai (Dundrum, Ireland) and Renaud Deraison (New York).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In an embodiment, a management system obtains a criticality rules table that includes a plurality of rules mapped to corresponding criticality scores indicative of a level of risk in the event that an associated asset of a ma...