US Patent Issued to Bank of America on Oct. 28 for "Controlling access to secure systems based on virtual private network detection" (District Of Columbia, North Carolina, Ohio, Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,457,198, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to Bank of America Corp. (Charlotte, N.C.).

"Controlling access to secure systems based on virtual private network detection" was invented by Laura Stillman Lavender (Washington), Edward Lee Traywick (Bellbrook, Ohio), Christopher D. Nobile (Charlotte, N.C.), Joshua Johnson (Denver, N.C.) and Nicholas O'Reilly (Dallas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Arrangements for controlling access to secure resources when a VPN is detected. In some examples, a request to access an enterprise organization resource may be received by a computing platform and from a user computing device. The computing platform ma...