ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,579,254, issued on March 17, was assigned to Bank of America Corp. (Charlotte, N.C.).

"Supplemental attack surface scanner (SASS) configuration integration component" was invented by Eric Colin Ackerman (Danville, Pa.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and apparatus may be provided for a configuration integration component (CIC) that integrates security policies for security scanning of computing machines in a sequestered network of an entity using a proprietary security scanning application with the security scanning of computing machines in an enterprise network of the entity using a security scanning application of a th...