ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,556,441, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to Bank of America Corp. (Charlotte, N.C.).

"System and method for computing infrastructure and operational restoral through automated dependency mapping" was invented by John H. Kling (Alexandria, Va.), Charles Dudley (Concord, N.C.), Jason Yeung (Forest Hills, N.Y.), Jordan Lasher (Dallas, N.C.) and Teshager Chanie Biable (Wylie, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system is provided for computing infrastructure and operational restoral through automated dependency mapping. In particular, the system may comprise a data repository that may contain aggregated data regarding the various operatio...