ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,526,244, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to CITIBANK N.A. (N.Y.).

"Encrypted autonomous agent verification in multi-tiered distributed systems across global or cloud networks" was invented by Ganesh Prasad Bhat (New Jersey, N.J.) and James Myers (New York).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods disclosed herein perform privacy-preserving evaluations of artificial intelligence (AI) agents. A first AI agent associated with a first entity obtains a machine-readable data structure defining one or more operative boundaries for a second AI agent associated with a second entity. The system generates a unique fixed reference value rep...