ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,411,944, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to Bank of America Corp. (Charlotte, N.C.).

"Endpoint threat inoculation computing system" was invented by Charles Philip (Andheri, India) and Bhaarggavee P (Chennai, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various aspects of the disclosure relate to automated monitoring and remediation of computing threats at an endpoint computing device. An endpoint monitoring tool is configured to monitor for security threats on the local host computing device. An identified threat causes the endpoint monitoring tool to automatically quarantine the local device and any associated user accounts. During a pre-defin...