ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,321,951, issued on June 3, was assigned to Somos Inc. (East Brunswick, N.J.).

"Systems and methods for fraudulent activity detection" was invented by Eduardo Correia da Silva Brazao (Potomac Falls, Va.), Steven Norman Brumer (Vero Beach, Fla.), Ian Michael Klein (Loganville, Ga.), Li Kong (Potomac, Md.), Marc Rudloff Plante (Mount Pleasant, S.C.), Sridhar Ramachandran (Rockville, Md.), Kimberly Tashner Shyu (Chantilly, Va.), Robert Janusz Sliwa (Chalfont, Pa.), Jeffrey Scott Smith (Overland Park, Kan.), Christopher Anton Wendt (Chester Springs, Pa.) and Haofang Yu (Harvard, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus for detecting f...