US Patent Issued to Bank of America on Sept. 2 for "Artificial intelligence-based lateral movement identification tool" (British, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,407,699, issued on Sept. 2, was assigned to Bank of America Corp. (Charlotte, N.C.).

"Artificial intelligence-based lateral movement identification tool" was invented by Steven E. Sinks (Scottsdale, Ariz.) and Jonathan Sheedy (Poynton, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A lateral movement identification tool analyzes communications sent and received from a local host to identify potential instances of lateral movement. When the host-based lateral movement identification tool identifies a host to host connection, the tool processes one or more artificial intelligence algorithms to analyze information from local network resources...