ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,561,443, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to United Services Automobile Association (USAA) (San Antonio).

"Machine learning network security testing system" was invented by Gregory Brian Meyer (San Antonio), Arthur Quentin Smith (Fredericksburg, Texas), Mark Paxman Warnick (San Antonio), Ruthie Lyle (Durham, N.C.), Pooja Krishnaswamy (McKinney, Texas) and Elena Marie Carrasco (Converse, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method for training a security model in a testing system using machine learning is disclosed. For example, the method includes accessing information about security attacks from at least one security attack ...