US Patent Issued to Bank of America on May 6 for "Biometric authentication based on behavioral analysis" (North Carolina, Colorado, Minnesota, Arizona Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,292,951, issued on May 6, was assigned to Bank of America Corp. (Charlotte, N.C.).

"Biometric authentication based on behavioral analysis" was invented by Joseph Benjamin Castinado (North Glenn, Colo.), Brandon Ingram (Charlotte, N.C.), Naoll Addisu Merdassa (Chakopee, Minn.), Kevin Graham Robberts (Charlotte, N.C.) and Ann Ta (Scottsdale, Ariz.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A heightened level of security is provided in a computing platform by monitoring usage of applications and/or services residing on or accessible to a computing platform to determine abnormal usage patterns. In response to determining an abnormal pattern of usage, th...