ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,675,970, issued on July 7, was assigned to Bank of America Corp. (Charlotte, N.C.).

"Systems for targeted image detection throughout computing networks" was invented by Sanjay Arjun Lohar (Charlotte, N.C.), Kyle Mayers (Charlotte, N.C.), Karen Stanek McFeeters (York, S.C.) and Elias J. Risola (Charlotte, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Detecting targeted images, as well as variations thereof within computing networks, such as the Internet and the Metaverse. Navigation to predetermined websites and accessing the HTML code to search for image file extensions and, in some instances video file extensions within the listing of URLs. In res...