ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,717,668, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to Bank of America Corp. (Charlotte, N.C.).

"Real-time mainframe network management" was invented by Kenneth Mays (Lewisville, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, apparatus, and systems for active and passive monitoring of a mainframe network are provided. The methods may include monitoring, using a mainframe management system, one or more individual applications executing on the mainframe network. The methods may include receiving, at the mainframe management system, a set of search parameters. The methods may include inputting the set of search parameters into a search function within ...