ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,361,157, issued on July 15, was assigned to Bank of America Corp. (Charlotte, N.C.).

"System and method for securing information in a distributed network via a distributed identifier" was invented by Tirupathirao Madiya (Telangana, India), Archana Brahadeeswaran (Tamilnadu, India) and Yellaiah Ponnameni (Telangana, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments of the invention are directed to a system, method, or computer program product for an approach to securing information stored in a distributed network. The system allows for generating distributed identifiers for information entries, wherein the distributed identifiers mask the ...