ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,730,648, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to Wells Fargo Bank N.A. (San Francisco).
"Modular network scan orchestration" was invented by Mark Jonathan Austin II (Greensboro, N.C.), Asheley Shawn Lee (Collegeville, Pa.) and Kelley Arthur (Madison, Ga.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An example of the modular outpost pipeline can make complex branching decisions at stages along the pipeline based on attributes of the data already gathered. This allows modifications to scans in progress within the outpost-based pipeline, and near-real-time sharing of specific scan data to external tools. The logic necessary can be implemented in any outpost p...