ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,579,292, issued on March 17, was assigned to The Toronto-Dominion Bank (Toronto).

"Systems and methods for securing a data stream with attribute-based access control" was invented by Igor Zykh (Voorhees, N.J.), Wei Zhou (Markham, Canada), Nikita Fodtchouk (Etobicoke, Canada), Chuang Yang Schlueter (Toronto), Julia Wan-Man Lok (St. Thomas, Canada) and Adam Cowin (Kingston, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for data streaming with attribute-based access control. A client apparatus in a data streaming system receives a message via a data stream. The message has a schema version of the schema associated therewith. Th...