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Bank of America Corporation (BAC)

NYSE: BAC · National Commercial Banks · Charlotte, NC · filing with the SEC since 1994
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US patents through Dec 31, 2025 · PatentsView, from the USPTO’s Open Data Portal · read Oct 27, 2026

6,038 patents granted to the 5 names below, as the owner printed on each patent when it was granted. A later sale, a lapse or an expiry is not read, so this is what was granted to Bank of America Corporation’s names, not what it holds today.

Patents granted
6,038
5,972 utility, 66 design, 1976 to Dec 31, 2025
Granted in 2025
730
Against 686 in 2024 and 644 in 2023
Applications published
8,239
849 of them in 2025
Names they are printed under
5
its own name, a subsidiary
By yearGrantedApplications published
'11'12'13'14'15'16'17'18'19'20'21'22'23'24'25
Each pair is one calendar year. Applications are published about eighteen months after filing, so the newest years read low.
What they are aboutgrants since 2021
Computer technology1,581
Digital communication1,116
IT methods for management368
Control56
Telecommunications27
Audio-visual technology8
Medical technology6
Optics5
Measurement4
Furniture, games3
Basic communication processes2
Thermal processes and apparatus1
The main technology area of each patent, in the World Intellectual Property Organization’s 35 fields.
Under which name5 counted
Bank of America Corporation its own name
US, as the owner printed on each patent
6,010 granted
3,655 published
Bank of America Corporation its own name
named as the applicant on its applications, in US. 1 more under the same name are not counted (printed in NC)
0 granted
4,583 published
Merrill, Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith a subsidiary
US, as the owner printed on each patent
15 granted
0 published
BANK OF AMERICA, N.A. its own name
US, as the owner printed on each patent
10 granted
1 published
Bank of America, National Association its own name
US, as the owner printed on each patent
3 granted
0 published
Names not counted (3)
Merrill Lynch B.V.
Most of its patents print US; this name counts in NL. 30 granted and 14 published under it are not counted.
Merrill Lynch B.V.
No country is printed for it. 0 granted and 2 published under it are not counted.
Bank of America, National Association
Only generic words.
Newest grantseach row opens the USPTO’s own copy
GrantedPatentTitleFieldOwner as printed
Dec 30, 202512,513,165System and method to detect data leaks via a distributed data orchestration apparatus and transmitted fabricated data responsesDigital communicationBank of America Corporation
Dec 30, 202512,513,144System and method for validating an interactionDigital communicationBank of America Corporation
Dec 30, 202512,513,015Auto-healing for blockchain configuration driftsDigital communicationBank of America Corporation
Dec 30, 202512,513,013Dynamic cross-node multidimensional hashchain network-based meta-content enabler for real-time content based anomaly detectionDigital communicationBank of America Corporation
Dec 30, 202512,512,992Real time channel affinity derivationDigital communicationBank of America Corporation
Dec 30, 202512,512,990System and method for implementing token-based authentication of text messagesDigital communicationBank of America Corporation
Dec 30, 202512,512,963System and method for securely synchronizing and integrating data stored in databases associated with multiple entitiesDigital communicationBank of America Corporation
Dec 30, 202512,511,519Candidate data points selection system for labeling unlabeled data pointsComputer technologyBank of America Corporation
Dec 30, 202512,511,480Pattern recognition using NLP-based tokenizing and clustering modelsComputer technologyBank of America Corporation
Dec 30, 202512,511,443System and method for data protection based on proximity and viewing angleComputer technologyBank of America Corporation
Newest applications publishedan application is a clue, never a plan
PublishedApplicationTitleFieldOwner as printed
Dec 25, 20252025/0392794SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR IMPLICIT ITEM EMBEDDING WITHIN A SIMULATED ELECTRONIC ENVIRONMENTDigital communicationBank of America Corporation
Dec 25, 20252025/0392664AI Automated Facilitation of Support Agent/Client Interactions in Multi-Modal CommunicationsComputer technologyBank of America Corporation
Dec 25, 20252025/0392606SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR AUTOMATICALLY DIVERTING DATA TRANSMISSION FROM COMPROMISED PROCESSING COMPONENTSDigital communicationBank of America Corporation
Dec 25, 20252025/0392598System and method to evaluate communication operationsDigital communicationBank of America Corporation
Dec 25, 20252025/0392589DEVICE FOR GENERATING A REAL-TIME AUDIO TOKEN FOR MULTI-FACTOR AUDIO AUTHENTICATIONDigital communicationBank of America Corporation
Dec 25, 20252025/0392560THINK TWICE ELECTRONIC COMMUNICATION OUTPUT FILTER GUARDDigital communicationBank of America Corporation
Dec 25, 20252025/0392507CRASH RESPONSE ASSISTANCE SYSTEM FOR FAILURES OF PHYSICAL SERVERS HOSTING VIRTUAL MACHINESDigital communicationBank of America Corporation
Dec 25, 20252025/0391421System and method for contextual analysis and metadata database generation for user-specific speech patternsComputer technologyBank of America Corporation
Dec 25, 20252025/0391420System and method for adaptive audio segmentation for contextual speech signal processingComputer technologyBank of America Corporation
Dec 25, 20252025/0391410SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR ENHANCING SECURITY ASSOCIATED WITH NETWORKED DEVICES VIA ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE ENHANCED PROCESSINGComputer technologyBank of America Corporation
What it applied for, 2024 to 2025: Computer technology 898 · Digital communication 531 · IT methods for management 243 · Telecommunications 26 · Control 22 · Furniture, games 6.

A patent is counted where the owner printed on it when it was granted carries the company’s own name, a former name, the name of a subsidiary its annual report lists, or its own name with a patent-holding phrase (Technology Licensing, Intellectual Property and the like), once the legal form, case and punctuation are set aside, and prints a country that name counts in. PatentsView’s data are published under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 licence. Source: PatentsView's granted patents and pre-grant publications, disambiguated, from the USPTO's Open Data Portal, through Dec 31, 2025, read Oct 27, 2026.

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