US Patent Issued to Rapid7 on July 21 for "System for automatically discovering, enriching and remediating entities interacting in a computer network" (British, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,689,637, issued on July 21, was assigned to Rapid7 Inc. (Boston).

"System for automatically discovering, enriching and remediating entities interacting in a computer network" was invented by Kenneth Allen Rogers (Stow, Mass.), Allen D. Hadden (Stow, Mass.), Craig Roberts (London) and Hugh Pyle (Salem, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An entity tracking system and method for a computer network employs proactive data collection and enrichment driven by configurable rules and workflows responsive to the discovery of new entities, changes to existing entities, and specifics about the entities' attributes. The data collection is used in c...