US Patent Issued to Bank of America on Feb. 17 for "Communication policy compliance evaluator" (Ohio, North Carolina, Texas, District Of Columbia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,556,577, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to Bank of America Corp. (Charlotte, N.C.).

"Communication policy compliance evaluator" was invented by Edward Lee Traywick (Bellbrook, Ohio), Nicholas O'Reilly (Dallas), Laura Stillman Lavender (Washington) and Joshua Johnson (Denver, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosure relates to business communication policy compliance. A communication policy compliance evaluator prevents account creation using business emails not authorized to create such accounts by the business domain email owner. The system assists in preventing phishing attacks as users must use personal email addresses for ...