ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,705,364, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to CrowdStrike Inc. (Sunnyvale, Calif.).
"CPE prediction using banner similarity" was invented by Shaefer Drew (Lynnwood, Wash.), Moshe Shimon Perez (Netanya, Israel), Michael Avraham Brautbar (Wayland, Mass.) and Yotam Lichter (Eftat, Israel).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Prediction of matches between CPEs and banners greatly improves computer functioning. Many web services have an unknown common platform enumeration (CPE). When the CPE is unknown, a computer system is unable to obtain cybersecurity flaws and software fixes for a software product or web service. A similarity between the CPE and a...