ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,754,774, issued on Oct. 6, 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.), Jason Pfeiffer (Tampa, Fla.), Brian Philip Murphy (St. Petersburg, Fla.), Jonathan R. Echavarria (Tampa, Fla.) and Marcus Carey (Austin, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-implemented method, computer program product and computing system for defining a target result set size; executing an initial search on a data set to generate an initial result set; comparing the size of the initial result set to the tar...