ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,580,977, issued on March 17, was assigned to BANK OF AMERICA CORPORTION (Charlotte, N.C.).

"Intelligent protocol implementation in a distributed computing system" was invented by Tomas M. Castrejon III (Fort Mill, S.C.), Kelly Ann Galligan Davila (Charlotte, N.C.), Anuja Mishra (Charlotte, N.C.) and Mark Alan Odiorne (Waxhaw, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, computer program products, and methods are described herein for intelligent protocol implementation in a distributed computing system. The present disclosure is configured to monitor usage data for a plurality of network devices; receive, from a first network device, a p...