ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,786,227, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to MasterCard International Inc. (Purchase, N.Y.).

"Detection and handling a anomalous activity by a remote entity over a communication network" was invented by Rupesh Kumar Sankhala (Churu, India), Ankur Saraswat (Gurugram, India), Siddharth Vimal (Chandigarh, India) and Yatin Katyal (Rohtak, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention enables detecting and handling threats or malicious activity in network-based communications and/or transactions. In an embodiment of the invention, a data message is received from a remote entity, wherein said first data message includes a first originating i...