ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,748,852, issued on Sept. 29, was assigned to CrowdStrike Inc. (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

"Vulnerability risk prediction engine" was invented by Daniel Kahan (Culver City, Calif.), Adrian Bledea-Georgescu (Bucharest, Romania), Cynthia Lai (Santa Clara, Calif.), Jeff Kaplan (Chagrin Falls, Ohio), Joe Faulhaber (Bozeman, Mont.) and Anand Visvanathan (San Ramon, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method of predicting the probability of exploitation of vulnerabilities of a computing environment. The method includes acquiring one or more environment variables associated with a computing environment. The method includes identifying a...