ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,670,264, issued on June 30, was assigned to Bank of America Corp. (Charlotte, N.C.).

"Multi-computer system for performing vulnerability analysis and alert generation" was invented by Dustin Paul Stocks (Stallings, N.C.), Kayla Ashley Rux (Charlotte, N.C.), Viswanathan Venkatasubramanian (Arlington, Texas), Ramkumar Korlepara (McKinney, Texas), Sanjay Lohar (Charlotte, N.C.), Eric Eugene Sifford (Harrisburg, N.C.), Ashley L. Jones (Washington) and David Cuka (West Chicago, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Arrangements for providing software vulnerability analysis and monitoring are provided. In some aspects, software bill of materials...