ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,537,803, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to Bank of America Corp. (Charlotte, N.C.).

"Using tonal bits for secure messaging" was invented by George Albero (Charlotte, N.C.), Olga Kocharyan (Matthews, N.C.), Stephen C. Brown (Charlotte, N.C.), Elijah Clark (Charlotte, N.C.) and Maharaj Mukherjee (Poughkeepsie, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computing platform may receive an event processing request. The computing platform may identify, by inputting first communication parameters of the event processing request into a secure communication model, communication validation information for the event processing request. The computing pla...