ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,353,355, issued on July 8, was assigned to Bank of America Corp. (Charlotte, N.C.).

"Systems, methods, and apparatuses for tracking cross border data transmissions and generating a data passport entry in an electronic network" was invented by Rahul Yaksh (Austin, Texas), Pratap Dande (Saint Johns, Fla.), Erik Dahl (Newark, Del.), Steven Allan Reich (Manalapan, N.J.), Vishwanath Prasad Karra (Mckinney, Texas) and Tileshia Brenda Alford (Charlotte, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, computer program products, and methods are described herein for tracking cross border data transmissions and generating a data passport entry in an el...