ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,381,853, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to Bank of America Corp. (Charlotte, N.C.).

"System and method for protecting non-public information from malicious users" was invented by Sakshi Bakshi (New Delhi), Sudhakar Balu (Chennai, India) and Siva Paini (Telangana, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for protecting non-public information from a malicious user determines a set of input data entered into a web application. The system determines whether each input data is associated with non-public information. In this process, the system compares each input data with each of a set of keywords that are known to be associated with non...