US Patent Issued to Merchant & Gould P.C. on Jan. 27 for "Risk assessment management system and method" (Minnesota Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,536,557, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to Merchant & Gould P.C. (Minneapolis).

"Risk assessment management system and method" was invented by William Schultz (Plymouth, Minn.) and Gabrielle L. Kiefer (Saint Paul, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A brand protection tool for managing risk to a brand is disclosed. The brand protection tool may provide a survey to a user. The survey may include a plurality of questions related to intellectual property. Based at least in part on the survey responses, the brand protection tool may determine a risk score, a protection score, and a net protection score. The brand protection tool may automa...