ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,418,557, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to TENNESSEE TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY (Cookeville, Tenn.).

"Systems and methods for cyber risk assessment for computing systems" was invented by Bradley Northern (Lebanon, Tenn.), Denis Ulybyshev (Cookeville, Tenn.), Trey Burks (Cookeville, Tenn.), Marlana Hatcher (Moss, Tenn.) and Michael Rogers (Cookeville, Tenn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-implemented method for cyber risk assessment for computing systems may include computing a risk score for a computing system. The computing system may include one or more components. The one or more components may include one or more physical ...