US Patent Issued to Bank of America on Oct. 6 for "Self-defending computing device" (British, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,755,009, issued on Oct. 6, was assigned to Bank of America Corp. (Charlotte, N.C.).

"Self-defending computing device" was invented by Myles Lawrence (Charlotte, N.C.) and Amanda Jane Adams (Flint, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computing device monitors for an event trigger by a secure computing module. Based on identifying an event trigger at the computing device, the secure computing module executes a health check according to a configuration identifying operating anomalies that are indicative of malicious activity at the computing device. The health check includes scanning a filesystem and communications module operatio...