ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,694,099, issued on July 28, was assigned to Cisco Technology Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Generating mitigating responses to security deficiencies using generative machine learning models" was invented by Tian Bu (Basking Ridge, N.J.), Girish Pulprayil Chandranmenon (Edison, N.J.) and Jerry Wayne Gamblin (Holts Summit, Mo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An example method includes receiving an identifier associated with a security deficiency, wherein the security deficiency is associated with a computer system; determining, based on the identifier, text data associated with the identifier; determining a text prompt, wherein the text prompt c...