US Patent Issued to Akamai Technologies on March 18 for "Real-time detection of online new-account creation fraud using graph-based neural network modeling" (Israeli Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,255,916, issued on March 18, was assigned to Akamai Technologies Inc. (Cambridge, Mass.).

"Real-time detection of online new-account creation fraud using graph-based neural network modeling" was invented by Nadav George Costa (Ramat Gan, Israel) and Ziv Eli (Tel Aviv, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method executes upon receiving data (email, IP address) associated with an account registration. In response, an encoding is applied to the data to generate a node vector. The node vector indexes a database of such node vectors that the system maintains (from prior registrations). The database potentially includes one or more node ve...