ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,259,873, issued on March 25, was assigned to Bank of America Corp. (Charlotte, N.C.).

"Agnostic image digitizer to detect fraud" was invented by James Siekman (Charlotte, N.C.), Aubrey Breon Farrar Sr. (Waldorf, Md.), Mohamed Faris Khaleeli (Charlotte, N.C.), Patricia Ann Albritton (Charlotte, N.C.), Sheila Page (Charlotte, N.C.), Mark Alan Odiorne (Waxhaw, N.C.) and Marcus R. Matos (Richardson, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods for enhancing compatibility of a document of an entity with an organization's database on a computer server to facilitate detection of a fraudulent submission. Methods may include receiving a populate...