ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,771,707, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to TRUIST BANK (Charlotte, N.C.).

"Detecting bad server builds" was invented by Brian Matthew White (Mint Hill, N.C.) and Ian Lassonde (Cornelius, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method for identifying bad server builds. The method scans the operating system software of a server while the server is in production, identifies an operating system software vulnerability, determines the publication date of the vulnerability, determines whether the publication date of the vulnerability is before the initial production date of the server and takes remedial action for future server builds...