US Patent Issued to Bank of America on Sept. 30 for "Enhanced security and extended functionality for workstation integration with mainframe operating systems" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,432,210, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to Bank of America Corp. (Charlotte, N.C.).

"Enhanced security and extended functionality for workstation integration with mainframe operating systems" was invented by Ryan Appel (Little Elm, Texas) and David Feher (Plano, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Improved, secure, encrypted communications between workstations and servers are disclosed along with extended and enhanced functionality for IBM's z/Architecture mainframes. On-demand connections are opened by the mainframe when a command is executed and closed in real-time after the command execution is complete and work results from the w...