ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,548,035, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to Kyndryl Inc. (New York).

"Determination and application of confidence scores to mitigate fraudulent accounts" was invented by Cesar Bravo (Alajuela, Costa Rica) and Omar Odibat (Cedar Park, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-implemented method, according to one embodiment, includes receiving, from a user device, a request for determining a final confidence score for an account, and determining a plurality of confidence parameter scores using information associated with the account. A first of the confidence parameter scores is determined based on an analysis of a structure of the a...