ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,430,442, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to Bank of America Corp. (Charlotte, N.C.).

"Electronic system for dynamically performing linked evaluation tests to identify faulty code and vulnerabilities in software programs based on efficacy" was invented by Jack Lawson Bishop III (Evanston, Ill.), Timothy Andrew Wright (Bracknell, Great Britain) and Robert Riley Zink (Chicago).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, computer program products, and methods are described herein for dynamically performing linked security tests. The present invention may be configured to determine a fingerprint of an application, perform, in an order based on t...