US Patent Issued to Citibank on June 9 for "Deactivating malfunctioning artificial intelligence agents" (New York, New Jersey Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,650,895, issued on June 9, was assigned to Citibank N.A. (New York).

"Deactivating malfunctioning artificial intelligence agents" was invented by Ganesh Prasad Bhat (West Orange, N.J.) and James Myers (New York).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides a malfunction interdiction system with monitoring, detection, and response capabilities specifically designed for distributed AI environments. The system may first detect any AI agents that are malfunctioning and then remediate any malfunctions via quarantine and/or AI agent termination. Upon detection of a malfunction, the system may automatically isolate the compromis...