ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,298,949, issued on May 13, was assigned to The Toronto-Dominion Bank (Toronto).

"Systems and methods for detecting false data entities using multi-stage computation" was invented by Vidhi Arora (Stoney Creek, Canada), Jennifer Bouchard (Montpellier, Canada), Jorge Alberto Caicedo (Stouffville, Canada), Yu Gu (Newmarket, Canada), Hoi Sing Mak (Toronto), Jennifer Dawn Miguez (Vaughan, Canada), Kevin Shao (Saint-Hubert, Canada), Andriy Shcherbatyuk (Ajax, Canada) and Tan Vu Vuong (Longueuil, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "False data entities attempt to evade getting caught by changing their information repeatedly over time. Systems a...