ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,730,881, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to Bank of America Corp. (Charlotte, N.C.).

"Intelligent search engine for detecting unauthorized activity" was invented by Kevin Delson (Woodland Hills, Calif.) and Vijaya L. Vemireddy (Plano, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Arrangements for detecting unauthorized activity using artificial intelligence (AI)-driven searching are provided. In some aspects, input from a computing device associated with an entity may be received. A monitoring tool may be used to determine that the entity is a human entity. Responsive to determining that the entity is a human entity, one or more data sources may ...