ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,489,793, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to QOMPLX LLC (Reston, Va.).

"Dynamic cybersecurity scoring using traffic fingerprinting and risk score improvement" was invented by Jason Crabtree (Vienna, Va.) and Richard Kelley (Woodbridge, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for dynamic cybersecurity scoring using traffic fingerprinting and score improvement, that uses a web crawler that sends message prompts to external hosts and receives responses from external hosts, a time-series data store that produces time-series data from the message responses, and a directed computational graph module that analyzes the time-series data to produ...