ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,597,034, issued on April 7, was assigned to Mastercard International Inc. (Purchase, N.Y.).

"Fraud detection methods and systems based on evolution-based black-box attack models" was invented by Siddharth Vimal (Chandigarh, India), Gaurav Dhama (Gurgaon, India), Kanishka Kayathwal (Kota, India) and Nishant Kumar (Jamshedpur, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various embodiments relate to methods and systems for generating adversarial samples. The method performed by a server system includes accessing a set of payment transaction samples from transaction database. The method includes initializing a plurality of encoders, weights of eac...