ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,777,023, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to Bank of America Corp. (Charlotte, N.C.).

"Method and apparatus for secure byte-level file transmission using weighted fair queueing and block interposers" was invented by Vinod Maghnani (Gurugram, India) and Atul Sharma (Gurugram, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and apparatus for secure and efficient file transmission across distributed networks using byte-level segmentation, Weighted Fair Queueing (WFQ), and block interposer mechanisms. Files are divided into byte-sized units (BCODEs), each assigned a unique identifier comprising a string code and sequence number. WFQ schedules t...