ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,591,687, issued on March 31, was assigned to JPMORGAN CHASE BANK N.A. (New York).

"Method and system for facilitating application vulnerability drift analytics" was invented by Sean Kilgallon (Newark, Del.) and Shazia Khan (Downingtown, Pa.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for providing vulnerability management by using drift analytics is disclosed. The method includes aggregating vulnerability reports that correspond to an application based on a predetermined configuration, the predetermined configuration including a predetermined schedule; appending the vulnerability reports to a historical record that corresponds to the applic...