ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,625,859, issued on May 12, was assigned to Fraud.net Inc. (New York).

"Methods and systems for detecting spurious data patterns" was invented by Louizos Alexandros Louizos (New York), Ayaan Chaudhry (Toronto), Gary Plunkett (Bellingham, Wash.), Oliver Clark (New York), Cathy Ross (New York) and R. Whitney Anderson (New York).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed are implementations that include a method for detecting anomalous data, including converting a set of data values representative of a multi-dimensional item into a nodes-and-edges graph representation of the item, applying a graph convolution process to the graph representation ...