ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,737,437, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to OpSec Online Ltd. (Washington, Great Britain).

"Systems and methods for mapping a networked environment with cross account clustering to monitoring and/or detect fraudulent entity networks" was invented by Timothy Allen Elton (Meridian, Idaho), Oleg V. Polishchuk (Chevy Chase, Md.), Sassan Shahriary (Pleasanton, Calif.), Chun-Ying Lee (Fremont, Calif.), Daryle S. Fong (Santa Clara, Calif.) and Sanjeev Karigowdanakoppalu (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, methods, and non-transitory computer-readable media are provided for detecting and monitoring fraudulent entity networks...