ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,505,300, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to AMAZON TECHNOLOGIES INC. (Seattle).

"Fraud detection in text" was invented by Brendan Cruz Colon (Seattle), Matthew Michael Sommer (Issaquah, Wash.) and Adam Edward Powers (Dublin, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Devices and techniques are generally described for detection of fraud in text. In various examples, ground truth text data comprising a plurality of first transcripts related to fraudulent activity may be received. In some examples, a respective first data representation of each transcript of the plurality of first transcripts may be generated. Unlabeled text data including a plu...