ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,367,289, issued on July 22, was assigned to The Toronto-Dominion Bank (Toronto).

"Threat detection and mitigation in a networked environment" was invented by Rachel L. Clark (Gravenhurst, Canada) and Mariam Mourtada (Toronto).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "One example method includes obtaining, based on network activity related to an object deployed within a networked environment, a number of threat events for the object and a corresponding set of severity scores. An aggregate risk score can be generated for the object based on the number of threat events and the corresponding severity scores. The aggregate risk score can be refined based...