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US 10944795
Rating organization cybersecurity using active and passive external reconnaissance
Current assignee: Qomplx Inc
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Patent summary
Title, assignee, inventors, filing/issue dates, abstract, and a plain-language overview of the claims.
Patent Overview — US10944795B2
Title: "Rating organization cybersecurity using active and passive external reconnaissance"
Patent number: US10944795B2
Application number: US16/720,383
Inventors: Jason Crabtree; Andrew Sellers
Current assignee (as listed): Qomplx Inc (original assignee also Qomplx Inc)
Priority date (assumed): 2015-10-28
Filing date: 2019-12-19
Publication date: 2021-03-09 (application published as US20200259866A1 on 2020-08-13)
Grant date: 2021-03-09
Anticipated expiration (listed): 2035-10-28
Status: Active
Purpose and plain-language scope. The title indicates the patent concerns assigning a cybersecurity rating to an organization by combining "active and passive external reconnaissance" — that is, gathering information about an organization's internet-facing footprint, partly by directly probing systems and partly by collecting externally observable data without direct probing. The listed prior-art keywords (data, information, reconnaissance, network, time) are consistent with that theme. Because the patent claims themselves are not included in the supplied excerpt, the specific scope of protection cannot be stated from this source alone.
Priority chain. The filing claims priority to a chain of earlier applications beginning 2015-10-28 (US14/925,974), with further priority claims from 2015-12-31, 2016-04-05, 2016-04-28, 2016-05-26, 2016-06-18, 2016-07-08, 2016-08-15, 2017-06-07, 2017-07-20, and 2017-10-04.
What this excerpt does not establish. The supplied text is a Google Patents bibliographic/legal-events listing only; it contains no claims, abstract, or description. It therefore does not establish the actual claimed subject matter, the specific reconnaissance techniques employed, any measured rating methodology, the identity or content of cited prior art, or the legal validity, enforceability, or current ownership of the patent (the excerpt explicitly notes that listed assignees and legal status are assumptions, not legal conclusions). Later reassignments are recorded in the text but are outside the scope of this overview per instruction.
Source: https://patents.google.com/patent/[US10944795](/patent/US10944795)/en
Generated 10/1/2026, 9:41:31 PM
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