ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,556,493, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to CITIBANK. N.A..

"Encrypted autonomous agent verification in multi-tiered distributed systems of third party agents" was invented by Ganesh Prasad Bhat (New Jersey, N.J.) and James Myers (Clearwater, Fla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods disclosed herein perform privacy-preserving evaluations of artificial intelligence (AI) agents. The system identifies an auditing AI agent from a set of auditing AI agents for assessing target AI agent sets. The system obtains a data structure that defines operative boundaries for a target AI agent set and generates a reference value by applyin...