ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,340,373, issued on June 24, was assigned to Kakaobank Corp. (Seongnam-si, South Korea).

"Method and system for detecting abnormal transaction between computing devices in a communication network using valid transaction pattern" was invented by Hyeon Seung Kim (Seongnam-si, South Korea), Jang Hyun Han (Seongnam-si, South Korea) and Doo Hwan Im (Seongnam-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The described technology relates to a method for detecting abnormal transaction data between computing devices in a communication network using valid transaction patterns and a server for performing the same. In one aspect, the method includes...