ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,724,901, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to Bank of America Corp. (Charlotte, N.C.).

"Real-time tamper-detection protection for source code using LSTM and QLSTM with quantum cache" was invented by Usha Alluru (Hyderabad, India), Pushkar Taneja (Hyderabad, India), Durga Prasad Kutthumolu (Hyderabad, India), Yash Pant Dashputra (Hyderabad, India) and Rustum Mohiddin Mohammad (Hyderabad, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for detecting tampering in software are disclosed. The system includes a preprocessor that converts source code into a minimal intermediate representation and extracts semantic and syntactic features ...