ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,664,285, issued on June 23, was assigned to Nucleus Security Inc. (Sarasota, Fla.).

"Asset grouping rules for vulnerability detection and management in IT systems" was invented by Nicolas Fleming (Leesburg, Va.), Stephen Carter (Fleming Island, Fla.) and Scott Kuffer (Fleming Island, Fla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed are methods, systems and non-transitory computer readable memory for vulnerability detection and management. For instance, a method may include obtain asset information for an organization, wherein the asset information indicates a plurality of assets; obtain a set of grouping rules, wherein the set of grouping r...