US Patent Issued to Bank of America on April 29 for "Information security system and method for phishing threat prevention using tokens" (North Carolina, South Carolina Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,289,304, issued on April 29, was assigned to Bank of America Corp. (Charlotte, N.C.).

"Information security system and method for phishing threat prevention using tokens" was invented by Kelly Renee-Drop Keiter (Waxhaw, N.C.), Michael Robert Young (Davidson, N.C.), Tomas Mata Castrejon III (Fort Mill, S.C.) and Rick Wayne Sumrall (Charlotte, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for communicating email messages using tokens receives a request to send an email message to a receiver. The email message is associated with a sender's email address. The system determines whether the sender's email address is associated with a token from ...