ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,743,517, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to Bank of America Corp. (Charlotte, N.C.).

"Steganographic modification detection and mitigation for enhanced enterprise security" was invented by Matthew Murray (Roanoke, Texas), Garrett Botkin (Charlotte, N.C.) and Dustin Stocks (Stallings, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects of the disclosure relate to mitigation and detection of steganographic modifications embedded in images. A computing platform may receive an image embedded with steganographic modifications. The computing platform may change or modify any number of bits of one or more color components of one or more pixels of an ...