ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,299,619, issued on May 13, was assigned to Merck Sharp & Dohme LLC (Rahway, N.J.).

"Adaptive enterprise risk evaluation" was invented by Mark Joseph Risoldi (Princeton, N.J.) and Sethuraman Balasubramanian (Monmouth Junction, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An adaptive risk management application retrieves data corresponding to an asset. The asset is a computing device or software application of an enterprise system. The adaptive risk management system identifies a set of vulnerabilities of the asset. For each vulnerability in the set of vulnerabilities, the adaptive risk management application generates a recommendation for mitigati...