ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,531,878, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to Stripe Inc. (South San Francisco, Calif.).

"Detection and mitigation of automated account generation using artificial intelligence" was invented by Suhas Hoskote Muralidhar (Bothell, Wash.), Prasanna Sridhar (South San Francisco, Calif.) and Charlotte Gils (Otterburn Park, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein are systems and methods for detecting automated account generation requests. An example method includes receiving an application programming interface (API) request to generate a new user account. The method then includes executing a machine learning model to predict a li...