US Patent Issued to The Western Union on May 19 for "Methods and systems for real-time identification and mitigation of agent risks relating to AML" (American, Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,632,872, issued on May 19, was assigned to The Western Union Co. (Denver).

"Methods and systems for real-time identification and mitigation of agent risks relating to AML" was invented by Manju Rai (Mumbai, India), Murali Ravichandran (Mumbai, India), Jacqueline Molnar (Lone Tree, Colo.), Noel Brandt (Highlands Ranch, Colo.) and Niren Kinikar (Monmouth Junction, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for identifying and mitigating non-compliances include determining an agent location of a money service business for review, obtaining a photograph and geographic coordinates of the agent location, and collecting field data a...