ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,499,222, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to Bank of America Corp. (Charlotte, N.C.).

"Systems and methods for machine interpretation of security data via dynamic constraint specification matrix" was invented by Tomas M. Castrejon III (Fort Mill, S.C.), Christopher Daniel Birch (Tega Cay, S.C.) and James J. Siekman (Charlotte, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention encompasses systems, computer program products, and methods for machine interpretation of security data. It identifies various data sources providing metrics and parameters, which include system logs, network traffic data, user activity records, and applicati...