ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,561,460, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to The Toronto-Dominion Bank (Toronto).

"System and method for performing security analyses of digital assets" was invented by Michael Avni (Ganot, Israel) and Puneet Mahajan (Whitby, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method are provided for assessing potentially malicious data files. The method includes receiving a data file possessing one or more unknown security characteristics, and providing an interface for enabling automatic selection of at least one of a plurality of analysis tools to determine the one or more unknown security characteristics. The method includes automatica...