ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,461,776, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to Bank of America Corp. (Charlotte, N.C.).

"System and method for implementing time-restricted access control to electronic digital resources" was invented by George Anthony Albero (Charlotte, N.C.) and Maharaj Mukherjee (Poughkeepsie, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system is provided for implementing time-restricted access control to electronic digital resources. In some embodiments, the custom set of executable code used to generate the digital resource may provide granular control over access restrictions for accessing, viewing, and/or transferring the digital resource. Such access restri...