ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,549,610, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to CAPITAL ONE SERVICES LLC (Mclean, Va.).

"Systems and methods for determining risk ratings of roles on cloud computing platform" was invented by Stephen Cirelli (Chesterfield, Va.), Daniel Girard (Chantilly, Va.) and Ellis Hammer (Washington).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system is provided including a database and a server. The database stores a plurality of cloud computing service accounts created on a cloud computing platform, a plurality of roles associated with each cloud computing service account, and a plurality of policies associated with each role. The server is in data communication ...