US Patent Issued to Capital One Services on Sept. 9 for "Patching security vulnerabilities using machine learning" (Illinois Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,412,179, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to Capital One Services LLC (McLean, Va.).

"Patching security vulnerabilities using machine learning" was invented by Galen Rafferty (Mahomet, Ill.), Austin Walters (Savoy, Ill.), Jeremy Goodsitt (Champaign, Ill.), Anh Truong (Champaign, Ill.), Vincent Pham (Champaign, Ill.), Reza Farivar (Champaign, Ill.) and Mark Watson (Urbana, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein are system, method, and computer program product embodiments for process corruption prevention. An embodiment operates by determining security vulnerabilities for an entity and correlation values for the security vuln...