ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,586,087, issued on March 24, was assigned to Wells Fargo Bank N.A. (San Francisco).

"Computing tool risk discovery" was invented by Robert Lee Posert (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Risk associated with end-user computing tools can be discovered automatically. Machine learning and other approaches can be employed to automate discovery of risk associated with end-user computing tools. In one instance, a machine learning model can be constructed and fine-tuned through training that can classify end-user computing tools in terms of risk. The risk can be of a particular type, such as financial or reputational risk, and extent, suc...