US Patent Issued to UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA on Oct. 6 for "Deep cyber vulnerability mitigation system" (Florida Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,756,736, issued on Oct. 6, was assigned to UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA (Tampa, Fla.).

"Deep cyber vulnerability mitigation system" was invented by Ankit Shah (Tampa, Fla.) and Soumyadeep Hore (Tampa, Fla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method, system, or apparatus for mitigating computer and network security deficiencies is provided in which, the method, system, or apparatus scans computer system components for finding a vulnerability, generates a Vulnerability Priority Scoring System (VPSS) score for the vulnerability based on the vulnerability, develops a vulnerability mitigation policy based on a system state comprising the VPSS scor...