US Patent Issued to Bank of America on Aug. 25 for "Dormant microcode related security threat detection and prevention" (North Carolina, New York Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,717,971, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to Bank of America Corp. (Charlotte, N.C.).

"Dormant microcode related security threat detection and prevention" was invented by Maharaj Mukherjee (Poughkeepsie, N.Y.) and George Albero (Charlotte, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An innovative system and method for detecting and mitigating dormant microcode threats embedded within legitimate software are disclosed. The invention introduces immutable code segments monitored for unauthorized modifications using hierarchical hash and checksum validation. Multi-level detection systems integrate Large Language Models (LLMs) to analyze behavioral de...