ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,598,201, issued on April 7, was assigned to Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc. (Basking Ridge, N.J.).

"Multifaceted detection of fraudulent data usage" was invented by Jacob Methner (Natick, Mass.), Khurram Abbas (Novi, Mich.) and Kevin Michael Robinson (Port Richey, Fla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method, a network device, and a non-transitory computer-readable storage medium are described in relation to a multifaceted detection of fraudulent data usage service. The multifaceted detection of fraudulent data usage service may apply fraudulent detection to multiple facets of network usage including end device identifier analysis, end...