ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,597,033, issued on April 7, was assigned to Stripe Inc. (South San Francisco, Calif.).

"Machine learning for fraud preventation across payment types" was invented by Anthony Pianta (Washington), Peter Lofgren (Palo Alto, Calif.) and Ketan Singh (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In an example embodiment, a solution is provided wherein a single machine learning model is trained and used to detect fraud across multiple payment types. More particularly, the concept of a payment scoring event (PSE) is introduced. A PSE is a data structure that stores multiple pieces of information about a transaction (or potential transaction)...