US Patent Issued to Bank of America on July 1 for "Identifying and securing unencrypted data in a production environment" (Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,348,498, issued on July 1, was assigned to Bank of America Corp. (Charlotte, N.C.).

"Identifying and securing unencrypted data in a production environment" was invented by Sandeep Kumar Chauhan (Hyderabad, India) and Amit Kumar Singhal (New Delhi).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects of the disclosure relate to identification of confidential data, in a message, and encryption of the confidential data. A computing platform may determine, based on a knowledge base, confidential data in a first message transmitted over one or more computing networks. The computing platform may encrypt the confidential data in the message. The computing plat...