US Patent Issued to Rapid7 on Feb. 17 for "Using discovered uniform resource identifier information to perform exploitation testing" (British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,554,783, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to Rapid7 Inc. (Boston).

"Using discovered uniform resource identifier information to perform exploitation testing" was invented by Adam Smith (Belfast, Great Britain), Ross Kirk (Belfast, Great Britain) and Jack Pincombe (Belfast, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A Uniform Resource Identifier (URI) discovery system is implemented that evaluates web configuration servers obtained from web servers to determine the existence and configuration of URIs hosted by the web servers. To discover URIs, the URI discovery system may obtain web server configuration files, and other metadata, from c...