ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,689,648, issued on July 21, was assigned to Cynergy Cybersecurity 2019 Ltd (Bat Yam, Israel).

"System and method for mapping network identifiers" was invented by Liran Segal (Yavne, Israel), Andrey Gvozdenko (Rishon le Zion, Israel), Michael Mishalov (Jerusalem), Gil Levy (Tel Aviv, Israel) and Alexander Peleg (Ashdod, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and system for mapping vulnerabilities to a private network identifier are provided. The method includes generating a request addressed to a public network identifier of a server, wherein the request includes a first beacon; transmitting the generated request to the server, wh...