ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,353,562, issued on July 8, was assigned to YANGZHOU UNIVERSITY (China).

"Automatic event graph construction method and device for multi-source vulnerability information" was invented by Ying Wei (Jiangsu, China), Xiaobing Sun (Jiangsu, China), Lili Bo (Jiangsu, China), Bin Li (Jiangsu, China) and Xingqi Cheng (Suzhou, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is an automatic event graph construction method for multi-source vulnerability information. The method includes the following steps. A vulnerability report is crawled from a vulnerability database, a cause of vulnerability is taken as an event trigger word, and a vulnerability ty...