US Patent Issued to TRIPWIRE on Aug. 5 for "Risk scoring system for vulnerability mitigation" (Canadian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,380,222, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to TRIPWIRE INC. (Portland, Ore.).

"Risk scoring system for vulnerability mitigation" was invented by Tyler Reguly (Toronto), Lamar Bailey (Cumming, Ga.), Lane Thames (Atlanta) and Craig Young (Alpharetta, Ga.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Apparatus, methods, and articles of manufacture or disclosed for implementing risk scoring systems used for vulnerability mitigation in a distributed computing environment. In one disclosed example, a computer-implemented method of mitigating vulnerabilities within a computing environment includes producing a risk score indicating at least one of: a vulnerability...