ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,244,561, issued on March 4, was assigned to Bank of America Corp. (Charlotte, N.C.).

"Preventing data loss using enhanced analysis of the URLs and URIs in webpage requests" was invented by Jonathan Sheedy (Poynton, Great Britain), Donald Hess (Charlotte, N.C.) and Steven Sinks (Scottsdale, Ariz.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects of the disclosure relate to preventing data loss using enhanced analysis of the URLs and URIs in webpage requests. A computing platform may receive a user request to access a webpage, and may determine whether the webpage is regularly accessed by the user and whether the user is permitted to access the webpa...