ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,464,019, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to Bank of America Corp. (Charlotte, N.C.).

"Optimizing anomaly detection based on user clustering, outlier detection, and historical data transfer paths" was invented by Rama Krishnam Raju Rudraraju (Telangana, India) and Om Purushotham Akarapu (Telangana, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for optimizing anomaly detection determines, based on a confidence score, user clustering information that indicates a cluster to which a user belongs, such that if the confidence score is more than a threshold score, the user clustering information indicates that the user belongs to a first cluster. ...