US Patent Issued to U.S. Bank National Association on May 26 for "Node entitlement and access risk scoring" (Ohio, Pennsylvania Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,641,096, issued on May 26, was assigned to U.S. Bank National Association (Minneapolis).

"Node entitlement and access risk scoring" was invented by Bradley V. Butts (Mason, Ohio), Ivko I. Cvejic (Huntingdon Valley, Pa.) and Charles C. Zhou (Columbus, Ohio).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "High risk nodes in a network are identified and remediated. Inherent risk scores are summed for entitlements of each node, resulting in an entitlement risk score sum for each node. For each peer group, a mean inherent risk score total and a standard deviation are calculated based on these sums. A metric representing the number of peer group standard deviati...