US Patent Issued to Intuit on March 4 for "Detecting fraud by calculating email address prefix mean keyboard distances using machine learning optimization" (Israeli Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,243,020, issued on March 4, was assigned to Intuit Inc. (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Detecting fraud by calculating email address prefix mean keyboard distances using machine learning optimization" was invented by Noah Eyal Altman (Rishon Le'zion, Israel), Or Basson (Tel Aviv, Israel), Yehezkel Shraga Resheff (Tel Aviv, Israel) and Yair Horesh (Kfar-Saba, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This disclosure relates to systems and methods for identifying fraudulent email addresses associated with an electronic payment service. In some implementations, a computing device receives an email with a prefix having a number of characters and chara...