US Patent Issued to Equifax on Feb. 11 for "Predicting data tampering using augmented machine learning models" (Georgia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,225,038, issued on Feb. 11, was assigned to Equifax Inc. (Atlanta).

"Predicting data tampering using augmented machine learning models" was invented by Cuizhen Shen (Duluth, Ga.), Philip Munguia (Atlanta), Prateek Agrawal (Alpharetta, Ga.), Ledao Chen (Roswell, Ga.) and Sriram Tirunellayi (Duluth, Ga.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Certain aspects involve using a set of machine learning modeling models for predicting attempts to tamper with records using a fraudulent dispute. A tampering prediction system receives a request from a target entity to modify event data for a historical event, including information about the target entity and...