ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,627,701, issued on May 12, was assigned to Bank of America Corp. (Charlotte, N.C.).

"System and method for determining network pathway security vulnerabilities" was invented by Shailendra Singh (Thane West, India), Saurabh Gupta (New Delhi), Usha Rani Alluru (Hyderabad, India) and Amit Bhandari (Dehradun, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for real-time monitoring of network pathways includes a memory for storing network node information and a processor configured to periodically receive information for each node associated with a plurality of network pathways. The information may include response time, geographic location, fai...