ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,413,616, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to Kyndryl Inc. (New York).
"Preventing fraud on smart devices" was invented by Cesar Augusto Rodriguez Bravo (Alajuela, Costa Rica).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments relate to preventing fraud on smart devices. In response to receiving a communication, a correlation of the communication to a security threat is determined, and device data of a device is obtained. A determination is made that a combination of the correlation and the device data meets a predefined threshold for the security threat. An alert is audibly output on the device, the audio alert being a warning of the security thr...