ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,537,855, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to QOMPLX LLC (Reston, Va.).

"Enhanced cybersecurity using an automated planning service" was invented by Jason Crabtree (Vienna, Va.) and Andrew Sellers (Monument, Colo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and methods for enhanced cybersecurity using an automated planning service is provided, comprising an automated planning service that receives a network analysis job, constructs a simulation using known network and threat information, assigns individual actions to worker nodes for processing, analyzes the results and records new threat mitigation plans as they are produced to expedite futur...