Bank of America Assigned Patent

Bank of America Corporation, Charlotte, NC, has been assigned a patent (9,811,279) developed by Kurian, Manu, Dallas, TX, and Cismas, Sorin N., Southlake, TX, for a “securing physical-storage-media data transfers.“

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: “A computing system may receive physical-storage-media identifiers stored on physical storage media approved for use by an organization. The computing system may generate, for each of the physical storage media, a log entry comprising a physical-storage-media identifier, of the physical-storage-media identifiers, stored on the physical storage medium. The computing system may receive, from a computing device, a request to write secure data to a physical storage medium. Responsive to determining that the request comprises a physical-storage-media identifier that is amongst the physical-storage-media identifiers: the computing system may either instruct the computing device to write the secure data to the physical storage medium or fail to instruct the computing device to write the secure data to the physical storage medium, and may update a log entry comprising the physical-storage-media identifier to reflect whether the computing system instructed the computing device to write the secure data to the physical storage medium.”

The patent application was filed on May 13, 2015 (14/710,813)