ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,413,585, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to Bank of America Corp. (Charlotte, N.C.).

"System and method for electronic authentication of electronic distributed network traffic via enriched data" was invented by Barry Gregory Jude Walsh (Greystones, Ireland), Tomas M. Castrejon III (Fort Mill, S.C.), Christopher Stephen Littrell (Dallas) and Edward Lee Traywick (Bellbrook, Ohio).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments of the invention are directed to systems, computer program products, and methods for electronic authentication of electronic distributed network traffic via enriched data. An authorization request is provided from a user ...