ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,598,162, issued on April 7, was assigned to Bank of America Corp. (Charlotte, N.C.).

"Secure tunnel proxy with software-defined perimeter for network data transfer" was invented by Elvis Nyamwange (Little Elm, Texas), Sailesh Vezzu (Hillsborough, N.J.), Amer Ali (Jersey City, N.J.), Rahul Shashidhar Phadnis (Charlotte, N.C.), Rahul Yaksh (Austin, Texas), Hari Vuppala (Concord, N.C.), Pratap Dande (Saint Johns, Fla.), Brian Neal Jacobson (Los Angeles) and Erik Dahl (Newark, Del.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, computer program products, and methods are described herein for a secure tunnel proxy with software-defined perimeter for ...