ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,659,262, issued on June 16, was assigned to Bank of America Corp. (Charlotte, N.C.).

"System and method for selective data routing in a distributed network via data throughput analysis" was invented by Elvis Nyamwange (Little Elm, Texas), Amer Ali (Jersey City, N.J.), Erik Dahl (Newark, Del.), Pratap Dande (Saint Johns, Fla.), Brian Neal Jacobson (Los Angeles), Rahul Shashidhar Phadnis (Charlotte, N.C.), Sailesh Vezzu (Hillsborough, N.J.), Hari Vuppala (Charlotte, N.C.) and Rahul Yaksh (Austin, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, computer program products, and methods are described herein for selective data routing in a distribu...