US Patent Issued to International Business Machines on April 14 for "Vulnerability applicability assessment and determination" (Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,602,489, issued on April 14, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Vulnerability applicability assessment and determination" was invented by Mrudula Madiraju (Bangalore, India), Shyamala Gowri (Bangalore, India), Deepashree Gandhi (Bangalore, India) and Rakhi S. Arora (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer implemented method processes vulnerabilities. A processor set identifies a vulnerability and a description of the vulnerability in a vulnerability report. The processor set extracts a set of key exploit conditions for the vulnerability from the description of the vulnerability. The...