ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,530,281, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to Bank of America Corp. (Charlotte, N.C.).

"Robotically testing accessibility" was invented by Mardochee Macxis (Concord, N.C.), Yogi Ahuja (Warwick, Pa.), Ion C. Freeman (Manchester Center, Vt.) and Utkarsh Raj (Charlotte, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Apparatus and methods for automatically testing accessibility of programs and hardware are provided. A program may receive configuration settings, a test program, and a set of accessibility rules. The program may automatically create a virtual test environment according to the configuration settings. The program may automatically run the tes...