ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,719,912, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to Rapid7 Inc. (Boston).

"Automated scan schedule creation based on observed scan engine utilization" was invented by Paul Miseiko (Mississauga, Canada) and James Cancilla (Milton, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various embodiments include systems and methods of implementing automated assessment scheduling. A particular automated assessment may be automatically performed based at least in part on an assessment configuration and scan engine resource(s) of an organization. Based at least in part on performance of the particular automated assessment, a scan engine utilization assessment may be...