US Patent Issued to Bank of America on Sept. 16 for "System for tracking the controlling entity of internet protocol (IP) addresses and implementing security threat mitigation based on the controlling entity" (Virginia Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,418,561, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to Bank of America Corp. (Charlotte, N.C.).

"System for tracking the controlling entity of internet protocol (IP) addresses and implementing security threat mitigation based on the controlling entity" was invented by Adithya Gadwale (Falls Church, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systematically verifying the identities of entities in control of Internet Protocol (IP) addresses and determining a security threat status for each of the entities based at least on the verified identity. As incoming data packets are received from an originating IP address, the entity in control of the originating IP...