ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,386,687, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to Bank of America Corp. (Charlotte, N.C.).

"Technology and protocol agnostic key-value pair based user interface and data rendering to support a transaction" was invented by Naga Vamsi Krishna Akkapeddi (Charlotte, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided are methods for reducing the size of a communication between applications in a network. Methods may include receiving, at a computer processor running on a central server, a plurality of values and a plurality of keys from application A, each value paired with a respective key, and storing the values and keys on the central server. A first c...