ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,585,784, issued on March 24, was assigned to Bank of America Corp. (Charlotte, N.C.).

"System for component-level threat assessment in a computing environment" was invented by Darren Roy Philips (Singapore), Ryan W. Nielsen (Denver) and Min Cao (Singapore).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, computer program products, and methods are described herein for component-level threat assessment in a computing environment. The present disclosure is configured to capture state information associated with a computing environment; determine correlation measures for the components in the computing environment based on at least the state informat...