ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,437,293, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to Bank of America Corp. (Charlotte, N.C.).

"Intelligent method and apparatus for secure payment transaction leveraging environment sensing real-time smart hash chain sensors" was invented by Sneha Padiyar (East Mumbai, India) and Sakshi Bakshi (New Delhi).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A real-time payment security method and system for preventing eavesdropping attacks on computing devices may include a plurality of sensors configured to detect anomaly-type behavior indicative of a security threat. The plurality of sensors may be configured to share data, and may be configured to eliminate false-posi...