ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,671,623, issued on June 30, was assigned to Bank of America Corp. (Charlotte, N.C.).

"Life-cycle bridges (LCB)" was invented by Arthur Guberman (Freehold, N.J.) and Lester E. Wolfgang (St. Augustine, Fla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Virtual monitoring of a set of computing devices by receiving a report of a service outage incident, arranging a life-cycle electronic bridge to respond to the outage incident, and transmitting an API call to a WebEx bridge platform requesting all electronic bridge information. Bridge information includes bridges currently being hosted by the bridge platform. The API requests responders that are currently ...