US Patent Issued to Surescripts on Sept. 23 for "Fingerprinting account activity habits in order to discover fraudulent usage" (Minnesota Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,423,705, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to Surescripts LLC (Arlington, Va.).

"Fingerprinting account activity habits in order to discover fraudulent usage" was invented by Bradley Carter Simons (Rosemount, Minn.) and Robert Driskill (Greenfield, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, apparatuses, and computer program products for discovering fraudulent account usage are disclosed. In an example, a database is queried to identify a list of accounts and transaction categories. A first table is generated based on the transaction categories. A second table is generated by populating the first table based on a response to q...