ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,598,232, issued on April 7, was assigned to Bank of America Corp. (Charlotte, N.C.).

"System and method for improving data security using dynamic data fragmentation and data generation" was invented by Manu Kurian (Dallas) and Michael R. Young (Davidson, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for implementing data security using dynamic data fragmentation and storage is disclosed. The system accesses digital content and splits the digital content into a set of data shards according to a splitting rule. The splitting rule indicates that each data shard combined with a respective pseudo data shard should appear as the digital content...