ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,530,690, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to MasterCard International Inc. (Purchase, N.Y.).

"Artificial intelligence-based fraud and risk management methods and systems for acquirers" was invented by Smriti Gupta (New Delhi), Adarsh Patankar (Betul, India), Akash Choudhary (Delhi, India), Alekhya Bhatraju (Gudivada, India), Ammar Ahmad Khan (Gautam Buddh Nagar, India), Amrita Kundu (Siliguri, India), Ankur Saraswat (Gurgaon, India), Anubhav Gupta (Lucknow, India), Awanish Kumar (Lucknow, India), Ayush Agarwal (Roorkee, India), Brian M. McGuigan (Mamaroneck, N.Y.), Debasmita Das (Kolkata, India), Deepak Yadav (Gurgaon, India), Diksha Shrivastava (Indore, India), Garima Arora (Delhi, In...