US Patent Issued to Bank of America on Oct. 20 for "Disruption of retrospective decryption operations" (South Carolina, North Carolina Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,771,724, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to Bank of America Corp. (Charlotte, N.C.).

"Disruption of retrospective decryption operations" was invented by Adam Kristian King (Fort Mill, S.C.), James Siekman (Charlotte, N.C.), Sanjay Lohar (Charlotte, N.C.), Matthew Bryant (Mount Holly, N.C.), Catherine Cunningham (Charlotte, N.C.), Takiyah Watford (Fort Mill, S.C.), Elizabeth Swanzy-Parker (Charlotte, N.C.) and Peter Nein (Charlotte, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, methods, and apparatus are provided for disruption of retrospective decryption operations. A harvested file may include an embedded protocol initiated when the file...