ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,737,709, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to RiskRecon Inc. (Purchase, N.Y.).

"Systems and methods for monitoring information security effectiveness" was invented by Kelly Thomas White (Park City, Utah), Michael Vance Fowkes (Salt Lake City), Jesse Duane Card (American Fork, Utah) and Andrew James Menzel (Tallahassee, Fla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for automatically assessing and monitoring information security effectiveness using collected indicia of sensitive content and indicia of security measure information for a plurality of networked organizational assets/systems to provide respective asset/system value a...