ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,725,491, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to Bank of America Corp. (Charlotte, N.C.).

"Remote validation of automated teller machines (ATMs) using machine learning" was invented by Paul Mattison (Sherrills Ford, N.C.), Matthew Williams (Frisco, Texas), Tanikia V. Simpson (Fairview Heights, Ill.), Kristi Kae Duncan (Fairview Heights, Ill.) and Jeffrey A. Beacham (Charlotte, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects of the disclosure relate to a remote validation platform for ATMs. The platform may train a reconfiguration model to output sets of configuration instructions. The platform may receive a first information stream from a first A...