ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,596,813, issued on April 7, was assigned to CITIBANK, N.A.

"Autonomous agent observation and control" was invented by Manjit Rajaretnam (Irving, Texas), Sofia Rahman (New York), William Cameron (Jacksonville, Fla.), James Myers (Clearwater, Fla.) and Ryan Bergeron (New York).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, methods, and devices that relate to monitoring and managing autonomous agents are disclosed. In one example aspect, the method includes receiving activity data from autonomous agents in an operational environment, deploying static and dynamic observing agents to monitor expected behavior and deviations, detecting a deviation by ...