ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,511,390, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to Bank of America Corp. (Charlotte, N.C.).

"Amalgamation platform providing concealed detection of code-passing using steganography" was invented by Timothy Scott Murphy (Charlotte, N.C.), George Albero (Charlotte, N.C.), Maharaj Mukherjee (Poughkeepsie, N.Y.) and Jinna Kim (Charlotte, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects related to an amalgamation platform providing concealed detection of code-passing using steganography are provided. An amalgamation platform may train a scoring engine to generate suspicion scores for code snippets and an amalgamation engine to generate execution scenario...