ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,244,635, issued on March 4, was assigned to Virtualitics Inc. (Pasadena, Calif.).

"Computer-based systems configured for network characterization and management based on risk score analysis and methods of use thereof" was invented by Charles Joseph Bonfield (Raleigh, N.C.), Jae Gook Ro (Chantilly, Va.), Brandon Lee Knight (South Lake Tahoe, Calif.), Sarthak Sahu (Pasadena, Calif.), Ciro Donalek (Pasadena, Calif.) and Michael Amori (Pasadena, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method includes scanning a plurality of hosts in a network to obtain risk information of each instance of vulnerability associated with each host during a peri...