US Patent Issued to International Business Machines on March 17 for "Dynamic prioritization of vulnerability risk assessment findings" (New York, Ohio, Missouri, Minnesota, California, Texas, Colorado Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,579,281, issued on March 17, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Dynamic prioritization of vulnerability risk assessment findings" was invented by Johnny Al Shaieb (Cypress, Texas), Steven Ocepek (Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio), Jason A. Nikolai (Rochester, Minn.), Melody Leu (Denver), Andrew C. Herlands (New York), Michael Redford (Wentzville, Mo.) and Elio Andres Sanabria Echeverria (Pleasanton, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Mechanisms are provided for assessing control checks and components of a vulnerability management system (VMS) for a computing infrastructure. A security vulnerability risk gap as...