ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,771,717, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to The Toronto-Dominion Bank (Toronto).

"Systems and methods for detecting changes in data access pattern of third-party applications" was invented by Milos Dunjic (Oakville, Canada), Arthur Carroll Chow (Markham, Canada), David Samuel Tax (Toronto), Gregory Albert Kliewer (Barrie, Canada) and Anthony Haituyen Nguyen (Toronto).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for evaluating security of third-party application is disclosed. The method includes: in an automated test environment: launching a test instance of a first application; and obtaining a data access signature of the first application bas...