US Patent Issued to International Business Machines on July 7 for "Neural networks for mitigating business email compromise (BEC) events" (Maryland, North Carolina Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,676,885, issued on July 7, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Neural networks for mitigating business email compromise (BEC) events" was invented by Nikki Elyse Robinson (Davidsonville, Md.) and Richard Howe (Mebane, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-implemented method (CIM), according to one embodiment, includes training a first neural network on email behavioral characteristics drawn from a threat intelligence data lake, and training a second neural network on email technical characteristics drawn from the threat intelligence data lake. The method further includes inputting data from an E...