US Patent Issued to Charter Communications Operating on Feb. 10 for "Vulnerability scanning of hidden network systems" (Colorado, Florida Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,549,585, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to Charter Communications Operating LLC (St. Louis).

"Vulnerability scanning of hidden network systems" was invented by Jeffrey Rowell (Aurora, Colo.) and Charles Manser (Clearwater, Fla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A network vulnerability scanning system scans a target device for vulnerabilities to obtain network connection data for the target device. The network vulnerability scanning system determines the network connection data includes a network connection between the target device and a hidden network system. The network vulnerability scanning system installs a network scanning applicatio...