US Patent Issued to Bank of America on Feb. 25 for "Network environment control scanning engine" (British, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,238,135, issued on Feb. 25, was assigned to Bank of America Corp. (Charlotte, N.C.).

"Network environment control scanning engine" was invented by Jonathan Sheedy (Poynton, Great Britain) and Steven E. Sinks (Scottsdale, Ariz.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A network environment scanning engine may monitor electronic communications received via an external computing network and by an enterprise computing system. The network environment scanning engine after receipt of an electronic message, analyze the electronic message to identify, by a network environment scanning engine using a machine learning algorithm, executable code for executio...