US Patent Issued to Bank of America on March 4 for "System for identifying and blocking suspect electronic communications based on Artificial Intelligence" (North Carolina, Illinois, New Jersey, Texas, Rhode Island, South Carolina Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,244,553, issued on March 4, was assigned to Bank of America Corp. (Charlotte, N.C.).

"System for identifying and blocking suspect electronic communications based on Artificial Intelligence" was invented by Anna Kristen Pingel Berry (Indian Land, S.C.), Shweta Ambulkar (Plainsboro, N.J.), Benjamin Daniel Hardman (Harrisburg, N.C.), Angela Ianni (Lincoln, R.I.), Olga Kocharyan (Matthews, N.C.), Luqman Sharief (Libertyville, Ill.) and Michael Wm. Whitaker (Fort Worth, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Implementing artificial intelligence, specifically, machine learning techniques to identify malicious emails and, in response, identifying...