ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,639,481, issued on May 26, was assigned to Bank of America Corp. (Charlotte, N.C.).

"System for real-time authenticated obfuscation of electronic data" was invented by Michael Robert Young (Davidson, N.C.), Manu Jacob Kurian (Dallas) and Jo-Ann Taylor (Godalming, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for real-time authenticated obfuscation of electronic data provides real-time visual obfuscation of the data by transforming displayed data into undecipherable data when viewed by an unauthorized user while maintaining access for an authorized user. The system may further provide application-level obfuscation of electronic dat...