ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,387,571, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to Bank of America Corp. (Charlotte, N.C.).

"Automated teller machine digital twin with an anti NFC/RFID skimming threat device through mist computation" was invented by Elvis Nyamwange (Little Elm, Texas), Sailesh Vezzu (Hillsborough, N.J.), Amer Ali (Jersey City, N.J.), Rahul Phadnis (Charlotte, N.C.), Rahul Yaksh (Austin, Texas), Hari Vuppala (Charlotte, N.C.), Pratap Dande (Saint Johns, Fla.), Brian Jacobson (Los Angeles) and Erik Dahl (Newark, Del.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects of the disclosure relate to detecting attempts to violate the security of an ATM. A computing system may de...