US Patent Issued to Wells Fargo Bank on Sept. 9 for "Assessing security of service provider computing systems" (North Carolina, California, Arizona Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,413,610, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to Wells Fargo Bank N.A. (San Francisco).

"Assessing security of service provider computing systems" was invented by Shawn Wallis (Fremont, Calif.), David Lorenzi (Phoenix), Matthew Michael Rogers (Charlotte, N.C.) and Christopher Heschong (Greensboro, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This disclosure describes techniques that include assessing whether various service providers, such as cloud service providers or SaaS providers, are properly maintaining sensitive data (e.g., private, confidential, and/or non-public information) that is entrusted to them. In one example, this disclosure describe...