ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,664,270, issued on June 23, was assigned to INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Connected asset risk management" was invented by Ragineni Sathyanarayana (Anantapur, India), Raghuraman Seshadri (Bangalore, India), Mahesh Shivram Paradkar (Pune, India), Harsh Kulkarni (Aurangabad, India) and Ishwari Jadhav (Kolhapur, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An embodiment extracts, from vulnerability data describing a vulnerability applicable to a connected asset within a network of connected assets, a set of technical impacts of the vulnerability. An embodiment generates, using a business value context of the connected asset...