ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,567,059, issued on March 3, was assigned to PayPal Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"System and method for managing threats in open transaction networks" was invented by Ashraf Kamal (New Delhi), Padmapriya Mohankumar (Chennai, India) and Vishal Kumar Singh (Howrah, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for managing threats in a network including applying, at a first layer, a first request obtained from a first computing device to a first graph to determine one or more first embeddings and one or more second embeddings, classifying, at a second layer, a second request obtained from a second computing device as a first request ...