US Patent Issued to Bank of America on Aug. 18 for "System and method for detecting insider threats in source code" (North Carolina, Illinois Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,711,244, issued on Aug. 18, was assigned to Bank of America Corp. (Charlotte, N.C.).

"System and method for detecting insider threats in source code" was invented by Jason Conrad Starin (Huntersville, N.C.) and Jack Lawson Bishop III (Evanston, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A code repository stores source code. An insider threat detection system stores instructions for detecting code defects and criteria indicating predetermined types of code defects that, when present, are associated with intentional obfuscation of one or more functions of the source code. The insider threat detection system receives an entry of source code and de...