US Patent Issued to Rapid7 on Sept. 22 for "Model-based confidence ranking of web application vulnerabilities" (British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,743,525, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to Rapid7 Inc. (Boston).

"Model-based confidence ranking of web application vulnerabilities" was invented by Stuart Millar (Belfast, Great Britain) and Denis Podgurskii (Belfast, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various embodiments include systems and methods of implementing a machine learning model for calculating confidence scores associated with potential security vulnerabilities. The machine learning model is trained using vulnerability data associated with a set of previously identified vulnerabilities, where the vulnerability data indicates whether a previously identified vulne...