ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,627,705, issued on May 12, was assigned to Qualys Inc. (Foster City, Calif.).

"Methods and systems for asset risk determination and utilization for threat mitigation" was invented by Mehul Krishnanand Revankar (Columbus, Ga.), Sumedh S. Thakar (Foster City, Calif.) and Anand Paturi (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed are methods and systems for assessing system risks associated with one or more assets coupled to a network and mitigating against said system risks. According to one implementation, a method for assessing a system risk comprises receiving network data associated with a first asset communicatively coupled t...