ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,591,423, issued on March 31, was assigned to Bank of America Corp. (Charlotte, N.C.).

"Determining a security patch for a cyberattack by executing simulations of different security protocols" was invented by Camilla Tyborowski (Buffalo Grove, Ill.), Adam Kristian King (Fort Mill, S.C.), Tarani Avasarala (Aurora, Colo.), Manil Ashish Trivedi (South Riding, Va.), Robert Hannon Sparks (Euless, Texas), Jose Miguel Magadan III (St. Augustine, Fla.), Elizabeth Marie Bennett (Charlotte, N.C.), Sophia Brianna Bui (Charlotte, N.C.) and Rafael Josue Alfaro (Charlotte, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for updating a security patch base...