ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,578,946, issued on March 17, was assigned to Bank of America Corp. (Charlotte, N.C.).

"System and method for dynamic code patch deployment within a distributed network" was invented by Tomas M. Castrejon III (Fort Mill, S.C.), Michael Robert Young (Davidson, N.C.), David Nardoni (Sierra Madre, Calif.), Joel Townsend (Spring Church, Pa.) and Manu Jacob Kurian (Dallas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various systems, methods, and computer program products are provided for dynamic code patch deployment within a distributed network. The method includes identifying one or more potential vulnerabilities within a software library that is associa...