US Patent Issued to Truist Bank on Oct. 21 for "Detailed compromised user credential theft with artificial accounts" (North Carolina Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,450,370, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to Truist Bank (Charlotte, N.C.).

"Detailed compromised user credential theft with artificial accounts" was invented by Michael Brantley Lewis (Nashville, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system can be used to detect compromised user credential theft via artificial accounts. The system can receive an indication of a compromised user account. The system may generate an artificial user account based on the compromised user account. The system can detect a login to the artificial user account and receive information about one or more actions performed while logged into the artificial user accoun...