US Patent Issued to Bank of America on March 17 for "Logos as visual indicators of trust in applications" (North Carolina, South Carolina Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,579,270, issued on March 17, was assigned to Bank of America Corp. (Charlotte, N.C.).

"Logos as visual indicators of trust in applications" was invented by Kelly Keiter (Waxhaw, N.C.), Cody Searl (Indian Land, S.C.), Michael Young (Davidson, N.C.), Melissa Gordon Glenn (Charlotte, N.C.) and Sanjay Lohar (Charlotte, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Apparatus and methods for providing an indicator of trustworthiness of a software application are provided. A program may receive information regarding the software application from a developer of the application. The program may analyze the application and determine that the application is...