ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,592,956, issued on March 31, was assigned to Rapid7 Inc. (Boston).

"Segmentation of web documents based on detected security vulnerabilities" was invented by Erick Galinkin (Monroe, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various embodiments include systems and methods to implement processing of web content for vulnerability assessments. A plurality of documents comprising web content may be obtained from multiple different web sources, and the documents may be parsed to determine a set of discrete document chunks. Parsing the documents includes determining whether a document satisfies a segmentation condition for segmenting the document in...