ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,647,432, issued on June 2, was assigned to Qualys Inc. (Foster City, Calif.).

"Quantification of adversary tactics, techniques, and procedures using threat attribute groupings and correlation" was invented by Ankur Sunil Tyagi (Foster City, Calif.) and Mayuresh Vishwas Dani (Fremont, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides a method and a system for generating a decision tree that tests security event files. The method comprises receiving attack data comprising a plurality of attack execution operations and determining threat attribute data based on the attack data. The method also comprises generating a decis...