US Patent Issued to Bank of America on April 1 for "Preemptive threat detection for an information system" (Colorado, Illinois Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,267,299, issued on April 1, was assigned to Bank of America Corp. (Charlotte, N.C.).

"Preemptive threat detection for an information system" was invented by Robert Riley Zink (Golden, Colo.) and Matthew E. Kelly (Chicago).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A device configured to receive a data sample about a configuration for one or more network devices in a public network. The device is further configured to compare one or more threat indicators to the data sample where each threat indicator is associated with a configuration setting. The device is further configured to identify a first network device in the public network that comprises a c...