US Patent Issued to Royal Bank of Canada on Oct. 7 for "Method and system for detecting a cybersecurity breach" (Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,438,896, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to Royal Bank of Canada (Toronto).

"Method and system for detecting a cybersecurity breach" was invented by Cathal Smyth (Toronto), Mahsa Golkar (Toronto), James Ross (King City, Canada), Sahar Rahmani (Toronto), Vikash Yadav (Toronto), Niloufar Afsariardchi (Montreal) and Laureline Arnaud (Brossard, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and techniques for detecting a cybersecurity breach. The cybersecurity breach may be a synthetic account or an account having been subjected to an account takeover. Electronic account data representative of accounts is obtained in which a first gro...