US Patent Issued to Bank of America on March 18 for "System and method for detecting and obfuscating confidential information in task logs" (American, Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,254,116, issued on March 18, was assigned to Bank of America Corp. (Charlotte, N.C.).

"System and method for detecting and obfuscating confidential information in task logs" was invented by Pratap Dande (Saint Johns, Fla.), Akhila Mylaram (Frisco, Texas), Gilberto R. Dos Santos (Jacksonville, Fla.) and JayaBalaji Murugan (Tamil Nadu, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system accesses a task log comprising text that is confidential information. The system selects a first portion of the task log. The system compares each word in the first portion with keywords that are known to be confidential information. The system determines that a...