ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,547,959, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to Capital One Services LLC (McLean, Va.).

"Methods and arrangements to log implementation of controls to mitigate risk" was invented by Lin Ni Lisa Cheng (Great Neck, N.Y.), Ryan M. Parker (The Colony, Texas), Sergey Petrunin (Cambridge, Mass.), Gary B. Williams (Williamsburg, Va.) and Piper Alexandra Coble (Richmond, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Logic may identify information of a first electronic mail document associated with a control, the control to comprise a process to mitigate a risk. Logic may select the electronic mail document based on the information. Logic may determine metadata...