ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,602,485, issued on April 14, was assigned to Capital One Services LLC (McLean, Va.).

"Monitoring security risk of a computing device" was invented by Rui Zhang (New York), Sudheendra Kumar Kaanugovi (Aldie, Va.), Jeremy Goodsitt (Champaign, Ill.), Dustin Summers (Lovettsville, Va.) and Austin Walters (Savoy, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein are system, method, and computer program product embodiments for determining a probability of a device at risk. The device may be associated with a plurality of security parameters. For a security parameter, the device can be in multiple states. A probability value corresponding t...