ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,277,236, issued on April 15, was assigned to Bank of America Corp. (Charlotte, N.C.).

"System and methods for intelligent entity-wide data protection" was invented by Prashant Ranjan Srivastava (Charlotte, N.C.), Michelle Andrea Boston (Richardson, Texas), Kamalanathan Jeganathan (Karnataka, India), Aravind Chandramohan Kumar (Kerala, India), Miriam Levinsohn (Dallas), Annabelle Williamson McLemore (Plano, Texas), Catharina Rabie (Greenville, Texas), Ananth Rajagopalan (Scarborough, Canada), Parthiban Tiruvayur Shanmugam (Charlotte, N.C.) and Durga P. Turaga (Murphy, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments of the invention are di...