ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,537,825, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to Bank of America Corp. (Charlotte, N.C.).

"Securing interactive response systems from infiltration of artificial intelligence programs" was invented by Manu Kurian (Dallas), Ana Maxim (Arlington, Va.), Michael Young (Davidson, N.C.) and Vinesh Patel (London).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for securing communications received at an automated chatbot within an entity network is provided. The method may enable securing the communications by monitoring inputs received at the automated chatbot in order to identify whether there may be a probability that the input is generated by an artificial...