US Patent Issued to EJ2 Communications on Aug. 11 for "Methods and mechanisms for predicting the likelihood of a vulnerability used in a ransomware event" (Virginia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,705,360, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to EJ2 Communications Inc. (New York).

"Methods and mechanisms for predicting the likelihood of a vulnerability used in a ransomware event" was invented by Benjamin Haynes (Richmond, Va.) and Jacob L. Kouns (Glen Allen, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system configured to obtain, by a processor, a plurality of vulnerabilities associated with one or more computer systems. The system is further configured to generate a set of fingerprints, wherein each fingerprint of the set of fingerprints is associated with a respective vulnerability of the plurality of vulnerabilities, by assigning a set of ...