US Patent Issued to Capital One Services on March 18 for "Machine learning for computer security policy modification" (Virginia, Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,255,928, issued on March 18, was assigned to Capital One Services LLC (McLean, Va.).

"Machine learning for computer security policy modification" was invented by Geeta Shyamala (Herndon, Va.), Lee Adcock (Midlothian, Va.), Vincent Pham (Seattle) and Nahid Farhady Ghalaty (Fairfax, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In some aspects, a computing system may use a machine learning model to determine whether a computer security policy should be modified to reduce the likelihood of a cyber security incident. Through the use of a machine learning model, unsafe combinations of access grants or permissions may be identified and modified to preve...