US Patent Issued to The Western Union on July 21 for "Detection of malicious activity within a network" (Colorado Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,689,654, issued on July 21, was assigned to The Western Union Co. (Denver).

"Detection of malicious activity within a network" was invented by Noel Brandt (Highlands Ranch, Colo.), Robert Enzaldo (Littleton, Colo.), Charles Champion (Lakewood, Colo.) and Brent Lemieux (Broomfield, Colo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques and systems for detecting malicious activity within a network are provided herein. A method for detecting malicious activity within a network may include receiving, by a network-based authentication system, a network transaction. The network-based authentication system may identify a first attribute of the network...