ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,260,469, issued on March 25, was assigned to Bank of America Corp. (Charlotte, N.C.).

"Systems and methods for intelligent steganographic protection" was invented by Madhusudhanan Krishnamoorthy (Srivilliputtur, India), Paramita De (Kolkata, India) and Pawan Kumar Jha (Tamil Nadu, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention generally relates to the field of automated and flexible information extraction and protection for graphical data. In particular, the invention provides a unique platform for analyzing, classifying, extracting, and processing information from images using deep learning image detection models. Embodimen...