US Patent Issued to Wells Fargo Bank on Aug. 26 for "Transaction fraud prevention tool" (North Carolina, Maryland, California, Minnesota Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,401,747, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to Wells Fargo Bank N.A. (San Francisco).

"Transaction fraud prevention tool" was invented by John Talbert Jackson (Mooresville, N.C.), Gene C. Baker Jr. (Eldersburg, Md.), Jon T. Graff (Charlotte, N.C.), Chad Otto Breunig (Huntersville, N.C.), Kevin W. Bell (Roseville, Minn.) and Darrell Lee Suen (San Ramon, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various examples are directed to systems and methods for detecting potentially fraudulent voice calls to a financial services institution. A computing system may receive an indication of a voice call placed by a voice caller to an operator. The computing ...