US Patent Issued to Virtualitics on May 20 for "Computer-based systems configured for network characterization and management based on risk score analysis and methods of use thereof" (North Carolina, California, Virginia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,309,191, issued on May 20, 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 computer network to obtain, during a predetermined time period, risk information of each instance of vulnerab...