US Patent Issued to Bank of America on July 22 for "System and methods for proactive protection against malfeasant data collection" (Illinois, New York, Wisconsin, North Carolina, South Carolina Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,368,735, issued on July 22, was assigned to Bank of America Corp. (Charlotte, N.C.).

"System and methods for proactive protection against malfeasant data collection" was invented by Tomas M. Castrejon III (Fort Mill, S.C.), Peter Kurrasch (Palatine, Ill.), John Raymond Omernik (Wittenberg, Wis.), Richard Seymour Scot (Huntersville, N.C.) and Kevin Patrick Thomsen (New York).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments of the invention are directed to systems, methods, and computer program products for providing intelligent proactive identification of, and protection against, malfeasant data collection, user device control, or user account a...