US Patent Issued to Ivanti on June 23 for "Predicting and quantifying weaponization of software weaknesses" (New Mexico Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,664,286, issued on June 23, was assigned to Ivanti Inc. (South Jordan, Utah).

"Predicting and quantifying weaponization of software weaknesses" was invented by Benjamin Anthony Mixon-Baca (Albuquerque, N.M.) and Srinivas Mukkamala (Albuquerque, N.M.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and/or computer software for estimating the probability that a software weakness will be used in an exploit and/or malware and the probability that the developed exploit and/or malware will result in a compromise."

The patent was filed on July 7, 2023, under Application No. 18/348,747.

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