ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,719,911, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to Capital One Services LLC (McLean, Va.).

"Clustering compliance activities and security vulnerability remediations" was invented by Grant Michael Iwan (Montpelier, Va.), Mohamed Seck (Aubrey, Texas) and Shannon Reid (Richmond, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In some implementations, a compliance system may receive, from a tracking system, a set of data structures representing a set of security vulnerabilities and indicating a corresponding set of severity levels. The compliance system may determine a set of levels of effort, corresponding to remediating the set of security vulnerabilities. Th...