ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,463,998, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to Bank of America Corp. (Charlotte, N.C.).

"Security patch deployment in response to detecting malicious network traffic" was invented by Camilla Tyborowski (Buffalo Grove, Ill.), Adam Kristian King (Fort Mill, S.C.), Tarani Avasarala (Aurora, Colo.), Manil Ashish Trivedi (South Riding, Va.), Robert Hannon Sparks (Euless, Texas), Jose Miguel Magadan III (St. Augustine, Fla.), Elizabeth Marie Bennett (Charlotte, N.C.), Sophia Brianna Bui (Charlotte, N.C.) and Rafael Josue Alfaro (Charlotte, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for detecting and addressing security threats is disclosed. The s...