ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,632,557, issued on May 19, was assigned to Bank of America Corp. (Charlotte, N.C.).

"System and method for improving security of software development life cycles" was invented by George Albero (Charlotte, N.C.), Naga Vamsi Krishna Akkapeddi (Charlotte, N.C.), Sanjay Lohar (Charlotte, N.C.), James J. Siekman (Charlotte, N.C.) and Elijah Clark (Charlotte, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method includes accessing a first set of instructions corresponding to a first instance of a software application and a second set of instructions corresponding to a second instance of the software application; and determining a first interaction conte...