ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,309,316, issued on May 20, was assigned to Pindrop Security Inc. (Atlanta).

"Fraud importance system" was invented by Kedar Phatak (Atlanta) and Jayaram Raghuram (Atlanta).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments described herein provide for a fraud detection engine for detecting various types of fraud at a call center and a fraud importance engine for tailoring the fraud detection operations to relative importance of fraud events. Fraud importance engine determines which fraud events are comparative more important than others. The fraud detection engine comprises machine-learning models that consume contact data and fraud importance in...