ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,563,086, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to Sevco Security Inc. (Austin, Texas).

"Method for characterizing and managing vulnerabilities across assets in a computer network" was invented by Aaron Griffin (Seattle), Steven Kroh (Rochester, N.Y.), Stephen Taylor (Brooklyn, N.Y.), James LoRusso IV (Milford, Conn.), Craig Cason (Troy, Ill.), Luis Diego Cabezas (Ann Arbor, Mich.), Nicholas Murdock (Glen Ellyn, Ill.) and Jacob Hackett (Austin, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method includes: storing attributes represented in objects, generated by sources during a time interval, into a container storing a set of attributes characterizing...