US Patent Issued to Curinos on Oct. 28 for "Automated device and account security setting update initiation" (New York, California, Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,457,247, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to Curinos Inc. (New York).

"Automated device and account security setting update initiation" was invented by Andrew Thomas Shade (San Diego), Kyle David Estlick (Seattle), Sidney Hong (New York), Luca Giacinto Cazzanti (Seattle) and Oliver Bruce Downs (Woodinville, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques are described for automatically updating settings of computing devices and/or accounts, such as to improve security to prevent unauthorized intrusions. Effectiveness of particular configuration settings may be analyzed after attempted intrusions and/or messages sent to associated users to...