ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,625,964, issued on May 12, was assigned to Bank of America Corp. (Charlotte, N.C.).

"Document object model (DOM) integrity check using hash verification" was invented by Shravan Kumar Vellore Suresh (Bothell, Wash.), Stephen L. Yeager (Seattle), Nidhiben Patel (McKinney, Texas), Lavanya Paruchuri (Renton, Wash.), Mohana Murali Shivashankar (Everett, Wash.), Giri Raj Pandit (Lynnwood, Wash.) and Varsha Kotagiri (Bentonville, Ark.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Webpage integrity is monitored using hash verification. A hash verification process is implemented to detect unauthorized changes to value field(s) in a webpage's source code and, wh...