US Patent Issued to AT&T Intellectual Property I on April 8 for "Detection of unlikely travel of mobile devices indicative of fraudulent mobile device usage" (New Jersey, New York Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,273,961, issued on April 8, was assigned to AT&T Intellectual Property I LP (Atlanta).

"Detection of unlikely travel of mobile devices indicative of fraudulent mobile device usage" was invented by Yaron Koral (Cherry Hill, N.J.) and Lauro Lins (Brooklyn, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosed technology is directed towards detecting improbable speeds of a mobile device, which can indicate fraudulent activity with respect to the mobile device. Radio access network events and call detail records are processed to determine when a mobile device "travel jumps" between locations at improbable speeds. Events corresponding to handover...