US Patent Issued to Legitary on March 4 for "Method for data manipulation detection of numerical data values" (Austrian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,242,659, issued on March 4, was assigned to Legitary GmbH (Vienna).

"Method for data manipulation detection of numerical data values" was invented by Nermina Mumic (Vienna), Peter Filzmoser (Vorau, Austria) and Gunter Loibl (Tulln an der Donau, Austria).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for data manipulation detection of numerical data values uses a testing device. A Benford vector is ascertained from the frequencies expected, according to the Benford's distribution, for predefined initial number groups in a transformation unit by use of a composition data transformation that reproduces the frequencies in relation to one another. A ...