ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,719,909, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to Darktrace Holdings Ltd. (Cambridge, Great Britain).

"Automated vulnerability and threat landscape analysis" was invented by John Anthony Boyer (Cambridge, Great Britain) and Jake Lal (Cambridge, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An open-source intelligence (OSINT) monitoring engine operating as an AI-driven system for monitoring incoming content received from an OSINT source to detect emerging cyber threats is described. The OSINT monitoring engine features a source evaluation module, a content processing engine, and a content classification engine. The source evaluation module deter...