ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,783,960, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to Bank of America Corp. (Charlotte, N.C.).

"System and method for distributed learning using dynamically encrypted data items" was invented by Anurajam Rajagopalan (Chennai, India), Pushkar Taneja (Hyderabad, India) and Durga Prasad Kutthumolu (Hyderabad, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method includes receiving and analyzing data items to generate a weight for each data item. In response to determining that a first weight of a first data item is within a first weight range, the method determines that the first data item has a high security level. In response to determining that a second wei...