ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,536,298, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to CAPITAL ONE SERVICES LLC (McLean, Va.).

"Software code vulnerability remediation" was invented by Steven Dang (Plano, Texas), Chih-Hsiang Chow (Plano, Texas) and Elizabeth Furlan (Plano, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods automating the process of application code vulnerability remediation. Implementations include building a repository of code revisions as software is checked for security vulnerabilities using or more software analysis tools. In certain implementations, historical code revisions are cataloged and stored in the repository. The revisions may be tokenized and...