US Patent Issued to Capital One Services on Sept. 16 for "Fraud detection based on an analysis of messages in a messaging account" (Virginia, Pennsylvania, District Of Columbia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,417,461, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to Capital One Services LLC (McLean, Va.).

"Fraud detection based on an analysis of messages in a messaging account" was invented by Michael Mossoba (Great Falls, Va.), Joshua Edwards (Philadelphia) and Abdelkadar M'hamed Benkreira (Washington).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A device may obtain a notification that a transaction occurred, where the transaction is associated with a financial account of a user, and a merchant. The device may determine that the merchant is associated with providing confirmation messages for transactions, and may process, based on determining that the merchant is asso...