ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,719,883, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to ConnectWise LLC (Tampa, Fla.).

"Fraudulent host device connection detection" was invented by Jacob Morgan (Raleigh, N.C.) and Benjamin Burner (Raleigh, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods of managing fraudulent devices are provided. The system detects a request for a connection to communicatively couple a technician computing device with a receiver computing device. The system identifies connection data for the connection. The system requests, based on the connection data, a plurality of account values. Each of the plurality of account values is associated with an account th...