US Patent Issued to Bank of America on March 18 for "Polymorphic non-attributable website monitor" (North Carolina, Colorado, Illinois Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,255,908, issued on March 18, was assigned to Bank of America Corp. (Charlotte, N.C.).

"Polymorphic non-attributable website monitor" was invented by Robert Zink (Golden, Colo.), Eric DePree (Evanston, Ill.), Stephanie Pirman (Chicago) and Jared Wilson (Charlotte, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Polymorphic non-attributable processes and architectures to monitor threat domains (e.g., pharming or phishing websites) are disclosed. Obfuscated requests may be generated by control servers to be blended in with normal traffic sent over cloud networks with randomized exit nodes or with normal traffic sent through an anonymization network. R...