ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,786,213, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to Citibank N.A. (New York).

"Detecting malicious inputs into artificial intelligence agents" was invented by Imir Arifi (Chicago), Ganesh Prasad Bhat (West Orange, N.J.) and James Myers (New York).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems for detecting malicious inputs into artificial intelligence agents are disclosed herein. A communication session between an artificial intelligence agent and a client device may be monitored. The communication session may include multiple requests from the client device and multiple responses from the artificial intelligence agent. A topic detection machin...