US Patent Issued to Capital One Services on July 22 for "Systems and methods for a net worth algorithm for vulnerabilities" (Virginia, Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,367,291, issued on July 22, was assigned to Capital One Services LLC (McLean, Va.).

"Systems and methods for a net worth algorithm for vulnerabilities" was invented by Thaddeus Madison Jr. (Richmond, Va.), Biswash Ghimire (East Lansing, Mich.) and Anna Graves (Richmond, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems are described herein for novel uses and/or improvements to artificial intelligence applications for vulnerability management. Additionally, methods and systems are described herein for contextualizing the importance of finding a patch for a vulnerability and helping to prioritize vulnerabilities to patch. As one examp...