US Patent Issued to Rapid7 on July 14 for "Machine learning techniques for generating common vulnerability scoring system vectors" (British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,682,080, issued on July 14, was assigned to Rapid7 Inc. (Boston).

"Machine learning techniques for generating common vulnerability scoring system vectors" was invented by Gudlaugur Finnbogason (Belfast, Great Britain) and Stuart Millar (Bangor, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Some embodiments provide techniques for generating common vulnerability scoring system (CVSS) vectors for vulnerabilities to use in scanning a computing environment for vulnerabilities. The techniques involve obtaining a textual description of a vulnerability; generating inputs for a plurality of ML models using the textual description of the vulnerabil...