ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,413,402, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to Daon Technology (Douglas, Isle of Man).

"Methods and systems for enhancing detection of fraudulent authentication data" was invented by Raphael A. Rodriguez (Marco Island, Fla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for enhancing detection of fraudulent authentication data includes receiving, by an electronic device, data during an authentication transaction, computing a feature vector from the received data, and normalizing the feature vector. The method also includes encoding the normalized feature vector into qubits, expanding, using at least one quantum algorithm, the normalized feature v...