ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,537,843, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to Capital One Services LLC (McLean, Va.).

"Cybersecurity risk assessment and remediation tool" was invented by Andrew Eshman (Fairfax, Va.), Mohamed Seck (Aubrey, Texas) and Ibrahima Mbaye (Jersey City, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed embodiments pertain to cybersecurity assessment and remediation. A questionnaire comprising a set of questions can be generated and provided electronically to a device of a small business representative. In one instance, the questionnaire can be dynamically responsive to input to focus on questions relevant to a particular business. Responses to questi...