ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,380,186, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to Bank of America Corp. (Charlotte, N.C.).

"Unauthorized activity detection based on input analysis and monitoring" was invented by Dinesh Kumar Agrawal (McKinney, Texas), Gilbert M. Gatchalian (Union, N.J.), Steven Greene (Scarsdale, N.Y.), Richard Scot (Huntersville, N.C.), Sanjay Lohar (Charlotte, N.C.), Benjamin F. Tweel (Romeoville, Ill.), James Siekman (Charlotte, N.C.), Erik Dahl (Newark, Del.) and Vijaya L. Vemireddy (Plano, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Arrangements for detecting unauthorized activity based on input method analysis and monitoring are provided. In some aspects, ident...