ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,664,287, issued on June 23, was assigned to DENSO Corp. (Japan).

"Systems and methods for determining vulnerability criticality" was invented by Carlos Mora-Golding (Southfield, Mich.) and Ameer Kashani (Southfield, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems for determining vulnerability criticality include creating exploit combinations for known vulnerabilities, inputting new vulnerabilities, determining whether the new vulnerabilities fit into an existing exploit combination or create a new exploit combination, and updating the exploit combinations based on the new vulnerabilities."

The patent was filed on Jan. 3, 2024, ...