US Patent Issued to Akamai Technologies on July 15 for "Real-time detection and prevention of online new-account creation fraud and abuse" (Israeli Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,363,141, issued on July 15, was assigned to Akamai Technologies Inc. (Cambridge, Mass.).

"Real-time detection and prevention of online new-account creation fraud and abuse" was invented by Nadav George Costa (Ramat Gan, Israel) and Ziv Eli (Tel Aviv, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method, apparatus and computer program product for real-time new account fraud detection and prevention. The technique leverages machine learning. In this approach, first and second computational branches of a machine learning model are trained jointly on a corpus of emails. Following training, an arbitrary email is received. The arbitrary email is the...