ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,603,911, issued on April 14, was assigned to Bank of America Corp. (Charlotte, N.C.).

"System for intelligent automated simulation of penetration testing and isolation of vulnerable distributed electronic data registers" was invented by Shailendra Singh (Maharashtra, India) and Krishna Rangarao Mamadapur (Pune, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system is provided for intelligent automated simulation of penetration testing and isolation of vulnerable distributed electronic data registers. In particular, the system may extract metadata regarding one or more nodes or sections of a distributed register. Based on the metadata, the syste...