ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,301,606, issued on May 13, was assigned to VulnCheck Inc. (Lexington, Mass.).
"Vulnerability detection platform" was invented by Jacob Robert Baines (Hatfield, Pa.), Michael Aaron King (Owens Cross Roads, Ala.) and Anthony John Bettini (Lexington, Mass.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments of a vulnerability detection platform and various examples of its uses are disclosed. A set of attack servers associated with malicious activity is received. A set of potentially vulnerable target servers is also received. A determination of an association between at least one attack server included in the set and one potentially vulnerable targe...