ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,306,980, issued on May 20, was assigned to Bank of America Corp. (Charlotte, N.C.).

"Network operating system deployment to remote hardware for network extensibility" was invented by Jared Wilson (Charlotte, N.C.) and Jackson Byam (Seattle).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for operating a remote desktop platform at a remote client device is provided. The remote desktop platform may be launched at the remote client device. The entity network may store a secure container including files, applications and profile settings of a user. The remote client device may retrieve the secure container at each execution of the remote desktop plat...