ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,470,502, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to Bank of America Corp. (Charlotte, N.C.).

"Machine learning-based anomaly detection" was invented by Edward Lee Traywick (Bellbrook, Ohio), Joshua Johnson (Denver, N.C.) and Laura Stillman Lavender (Washington).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Arrangements for machine learning-based anomaly detection are provided. In some examples, historical data related to user interactions with enterprise organization resources and location may be received and used to train a machine learning model. Current user interaction data, as well as current location data, may be received. The current user interaction dat...