ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,298,972, issued on May 13, was assigned to Bank of America Corp. (Charlotte, N.C.).

"System and method for recursive transliteration of machine interpretable languages" was invented by Maharaj Mukherjee (Poughkeepsie, N.Y.), Utkarsh Raj (Charlotte, N.C.), Carl M. Benda (Charlotte, N.C.), Suman Roy Choudhury (Jersey City, N.J.) and Elvis Nyamwange (Little Elm, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects of the disclosure relate to transliteration of machine interpretable languages. The computing platform may receive a query, formatted in a first format for execution on a first database. The computing platform may translate the query to a...