ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,395,502, issued on Aug. 19, was assigned to Bank of America Corp. (Charlotte, N.C.).

"System and method for identifying and preventing misappropriation using normalized request sequences" was invented by Brady Prentice Merkel (Jacksonville Beach, Fla.) and Wayne Georges (Somerset, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, computer program products, and methods are described herein for identifying and preventing misappropriation using normalized request sequences. The method includes receiving a sequence of two or more requests associated with a user. The method also includes comparing the sequence of two or more requests with one or m...