ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,717,931, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to RELIAQUEST HOLDINGS LLC (Tampa, Fla.).

"Threat mitigation system and method" was invented by Brian P. Murphy (Tampa, Fla.), Joe Partlow (Tampa, Fla.), Colin O'Connor (Tampa, Fla.) and Jason Pfeiffer (Tampa, Fla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-implemented method, computer program product and computing system for: obtaining one or more artifacts concerning a detected security event; obtaining artifact information concerning the one or more artifacts; and generating a conclusion concerning the detected security event based, at least in part, upon the detected security event, the one or ...