ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,770,154, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to Bank of America Corp. (Charlotte, N.C.).

"Automation of fraud detection with machine learning utilizing publicly available forms" was invented by Rahul Yaksh (Austin, Texas), Amer Ali (Jersey City, N.J.), Brian Jacobson (Los Angeles), Elvis Nyamwange (Little Elm, Texas), Erik Dahl (Newark, Del.), Hari Vuppala (Charlotte, N.C.), Pratap Dande (Saint Johns, Fla.), Rahul Phadnis (Charlotte, N.C.) and Sailesh Vezzu (Hillsborough, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for alerting an organization about activity that may be fraudulent. Systems may include a computer processor, a stor...