ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,700,253, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to THE BANK OF NEW YORK MELLON (New York).

"Signature verification based on topological stochastic models" was invented by Ibrahim Ghalyan (New York) and Binlin Chi (New York).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The systems and methods relate to electronic signature verification based on topological stochastic models (TSM). The TSM may be trained on samples of known authentic signatures of a signee. Training the TSM may include TSM features extraction on the training samples to extract feature vectors, TSM features aggregation to aggregate the feature vectors, and optimal threshold estimation to determine...