US Patent Issued to Bank of America on Feb. 10 for "System and method for intercepting and classifying suspicious text messages between user devices" (Texas, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,549,599, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to Bank of America Corp. (Charlotte, N.C.).

"System and method for intercepting and classifying suspicious text messages between user devices" was invented by Scott Fennell (Carrollton, Texas), Jennie Kathleen Egbert (Ventura, Calif.) and Jeffrey Wayne Texada (Carrollton, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for classifying a suspicious text is disclosed. The method includes intercepting a suspicious text message having information data sent between a first and second user device. The method includes applying a hashing function to the information data to generate hashed information data, ...