US Patent Issued to Bank of America on June 17 for "Malicious universal resource locator and file detector and response action engine" (North Carolina Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,335,254, issued on June 17, was assigned to Bank of America Corp. (Charlotte, N.C.).

"Malicious universal resource locator and file detector and response action engine" was invented by George Anthony Albero (Charlotte, N.C.) and Elijah Clark (Charlotte, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Detecting malicious/spoofed Universal Resource Locators (URLs) and/or files in received electronic mail (i.e., email) and, in response to detection, automatically taking responsive measures to prevent interaction/access to the malicious/spoofed URLs and/or files and/or limit, network-wide, the exposure to the malicious/spoofed URLs and/or files. Valid U...