ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,598,209, issued on April 7, was assigned to ARISTA NETWORKS INC. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Device vulnerability risk assessment system" was invented by Arunabh Ghosh (San Jose, Calif.), Gary Joshua Golomb (Los Gatos, Calif.) and Eric Jon Poynton (Denver).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for risk assessment of network devices are disclosed herein. In particular, embodiments may determine risk scores for devices within a network that are highly individualized to each network device by leveraging data from a number of data sources. These data sources may include search results or the determination of network device data assoc...