US Patent Issued to INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES on May 13 for "Holistic evaluation of vulnerabilities in a vulnerability chain" (American, British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,299,137, issued on May 13, was assigned to INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Holistic evaluation of vulnerabilities in a vulnerability chain" was invented by Nikki Elyse Robinson (Davidsonville, Md.), Leigh Chase (Andover, Great Britain), Efran Himel (Cambridge, Mass.) and Carter Hottovy (Austin, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An embodiment includes invoking a search of vulnerability chain data of a local database using a database query to obtain a search result, where the database query is based on a description string associated with a new vulnerability, and where the search result comprises a plurality of li...