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Tenable was granted a patent for machine-learning vulnerability scoring.

What happened

In September 2026 Tenable patented technology for estimating vulnerability severity from descriptions, used in cybersecurity assessment and network protection workflows.

Source

patents.google.comSep 29, 2026

US patent US12750392

Automatic generation of vulnerability metrics using machine learning

Abstract

Techniques, methods and/or apparatuses that enable generation of vulnerability vectors of newly identified vulnerabilities (e.g., Common Vulnerability Exposures (CVEs)). Based on the textual description of the vulnerability, vulnerability vectors are generated. The generated vulnerability vectors may represent a prediction of how a third-party vulnerability scorer (e.g., United State National Vulnerability Database (US NVD)) would score the identified vulnerability.

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Grant date
Sep 29, 2026
Inventors
Cathal Mullaney
Tech area
networking / data transmission
Patent number
US12750392

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Details

Primary CPC class
H04L 63/1433 (Transmission of digital information)
USPTO assignee
Tenable, Inc.
What the invention does
A machine-learning system that turns a newly reported vulnerability’s text into a structured risk profile and predicts how an established scoring service would rate it.

Topics and mentions

Tags

  • Intellectual Property
  • Research & Development
  • Machine Learning
  • Cyber Security
  • Information Security

Technologies named

  • machine learning
  • vulnerability management
  • cybersecurity scoring
  • network security

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