USPTO Patent

Patented Cyber Risk Scoring Technology

Xcigence's scoring methodology is protected by a USPTO patent application, US 16/822,691. Rather than claiming "patented technology" and leaving it there, this page explains what was invented, the problem it solves, the capability it creates, and how it is commercialized.

Xcigence is an AI-powered cyber risk intelligence and risk-scoring platform that uses patented technology to quantify cybersecurity risk across organizations, users, assets, vendors and supply chains. That capability rests on USPTO-patented technology — the Artemis engine — which computes standardized cyber risk from externally observable evidence alone, with no agents, questionnaires, or access to the assessed organization.

Official Record

Application Number

US 16/822,691

Authority

United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO)

Subject Matter

System and method for computing standardized cyber risk from externally observable evidence

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The Invention

What was patented, why it was needed, what it makes possible, and how it reaches the market.

The problem

Cyber risk could not be measured consistently

Before the invention, assessing an organization's cyber risk meant inspecting it from the inside — deploying agents, running internal scans, and collecting self-reported questionnaire responses. That approach cannot be applied to a party you do not control, produces results that are not comparable between organizations, and expires the moment infrastructure changes. Insurers, investors, auditors, and enterprises evaluating vendors were left estimating risk from assertions rather than measuring it from evidence.

What was patented

A method for computing cyber risk from externally observable evidence

The invention covers a system and method for producing a standardized cyber risk measurement from evidence collected without access to, or cooperation from, the assessed environment. It defines how heterogeneous external signals — internet-facing services, exposed infrastructure, domain and cloud configuration, email security posture, leaked credential and dark web intelligence, and disclosed vulnerabilities — are correlated to a target organization, weighted by real-world exploitability rather than counted equally, calibrated so that organizations of different size and surface area remain comparable, and resolved into a single bounded score.

What it enables

Independent, continuous, comparable scoring at any scale

Because the method needs no agent, no questionnaire, and no permission, it can be applied to any organization — your own enterprise, a prospective vendor, a vendor's downstream provider, an insurance applicant, or an acquisition target — using identical criteria. Calibration is what makes the resulting numbers comparable, and continuous re-collection is what keeps them current. Together these produce the 300–850 Xcigence Cyber Risk Score: a measurement that can be ranked, aggregated across a portfolio, tracked over time, and defended by reference to the specific findings that produced it.

How Xcigence commercializes it

From patented method to operating platform

The patented method is implemented in the Artemis™ risk analytics engine, which powers every score the platform produces. That engine is commercialized through the Xcigence platform and its API: enterprise risk scoring and board reporting, third- and fourth-party vendor ratings, compliance assessment automation, cyber due diligence for M&A, AI vendor governance, and cyber insurance underwriting and portfolio monitoring. The same measurement is also delivered directly into customers' own rating engines, GRC tools, and underwriting workbenches through the API, so the technology is licensed as intelligence rather than only consumed as a dashboard.

What the patent powers

From protected method to the products customers use.

The Artemis™ engine

The patented method implemented in production — the analytics layer that converts weighted external evidence into a calibrated score.

The 300–850 score

A bounded, comparable output of the invention, readable by boards, underwriters, and procurement teams without technical translation.

Platform and API delivery

Commercialized through the Xcigence platform and API across enterprise, vendor, insurance, and transaction use cases.

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The Xcigence Engine

The Artemis™ engine that implements the patented method.

The 300–850 Score

The bounded, comparable output of the invention.

Defensible Scoring

The methodology principles behind every score.

Company & Technology Facts

Canonical reference information about Xcigence and Cyberlab Inc.

API & Integrations

How the technology is licensed and delivered into other systems.

Research Collaboration

Work with our team on risk scoring and quantification research.

See the patented methodology applied to your organization

Request a demo to see how the Artemis™ engine scores your environment, your vendors, and your acquisition targets on one comparable scale.