ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,368,783, issued on July 22, was assigned to Bank of America Corp. (Charlotte, N.C.).

"Systems and methods for preventing synthetic misappropriation events over an electronic network" was invented by Steven Nathan Greene (Scarsdale, N.Y.), Aravind Shankaragouda Singtalur (McKinney, Texas), Srinath S. Chakravarty (Plano, Texas), Dinesh Kumar Agrawal (Rowlett, Texas), Stephen Richard Belton (Garden City, N.Y.), Petar Evan Puskarich (Murphy, Texas), Manmohan V. Datla (Frisco, Texas), Kenneth L. Boyd (Mechanicsville, Va.), Kerry M. Vaughan (Lawrenceville, N.J.), Elina Shkodnik (Staten Island, N.Y.) and Tonya Kyra Miller (Charlotte, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Pa...