ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,609,951, issued on April 21, was assigned to Harman Connected Services Inc. (Stamford, Conn.).

"System and method for gathering, analyzing, and reporting global cybersecurity threats" was invented by Jai Ganesh (Karnataka, India), Abhay Sudhakar Barhanpurkar (Maharashtra, India) and Rahul Chaudhari (Pune, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system is provided for reducing a cybersecurity vulnerability of enterprise assets with a cybersecurity asset management and automation system. In one example, a method includes a receiving a first XML file from a data aggregator; receiving a second XML file from a web crawler; enter the second XM...