ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,413,665, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to Bank of America Corp. (Charlotte, N.C.).

"Automated vishing detection to prevent deepfake and chatbot attacks" was invented by George Albero (Charlotte, N.C.) and Maharaj Mukherjee (Poughkeepsie, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computing platform may train, using historical call information, a prompt generation model to identify, for an initiated call between a first individual and a second individual, one or more security prompts to validate an identity of the first individual. The computing platform may detect and temporarily pause a call. The computing platform may input, into the pro...