US Patent Issued to Fortinet on March 17 for "Risk evaluation for a vulnerability assessment system on a data communication network from a collection of threats" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,580,941, issued on March 17, was assigned to Fortinet Inc. (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

"Risk evaluation for a vulnerability assessment system on a data communication network from a collection of threats" was invented by Chenchen Zhou (Sunnyvale, Calif.) and Dancheng Sun (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A private network is scanned to identify devices, and profiling identified devices for vulnerabilities. A score is determined from a Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) database for each vulnerability individually that characterizes severity. A score is determined for a collection of vulnerabilities. Exponential tapering ...