ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,468,816, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to Capital One Services LLC (McLean, Va.).
"Systems and methods for translating different vulnerability scan results into a standardized format and for certifying target resources against detection of vulnerabilities" was invented by Andrew Theismann (Saint Petersburg, Fla.), Chuan Wang (Vienna, Va.) and Thomas Edward Dean (Middletown, Del.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-implemented method includes: receiving a first request to certify a resource for a cloud computing environment, the resource including one or more of: a machine image, a container image, or an infrastructure component; ...