ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,341,781, issued on June 24, was assigned to Wells Fargo Bank N.A. (San Francisco).
"Internet protocol (IP) curator" was invented by Upul D. Hanwella (San Francisco), Shawna K. Murphy Butterworth (Auburn, Calif.), Bryan D. Hall (Charlotte, N.C.), James Condron Hudson (Charlotte, N.C.), Christian Tobias Sorensen (Park City, Utah), Samantha T. Grosby (St. Paul, Minn.), Nicola A. Maiorana (Charlotte, N.C.), Richard Joseph Schroeder (Charlotte, N.C.), Shailesh Hedaoo (Fremont, Calif.) and William Norton Hebert (Vacaville, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods may generally be used to automatically curate a blocklist of int...