ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,289,316, issued on April 29, was assigned to Bank of America Corp. (Charlotte, N.C.).

"Multi-leveled data transfer" was invented by Ion Freeman (Manchester Center, Vt.) and Manu Kurian (Dallas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems and apparatus for controlled data transmission within leveled data environments is provided. Methods may include transmitting a dataset, using a data driver, from a first data environment to a second data environment. Methods may include intercepting the dataset at a reception gateway. Methods may include transmitting an identification. The identification request may request an original data environmen...