ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,591,898, issued on March 31, was assigned to Visa International Service Association (San Francisco).

"Systems and methods for generating behavior profiles for new entities" was invented by Pushkar Joglekar (Emeryville, Calif.), Ajit Gaddam (Foster City, Calif.) and Ara Jermakyan (Northridge, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed are a method and system for generating a behavior profile for a new entity. The method is performed in response to and immediately after a new entity is added to a fraud detection system. The method includes generating a doppelganger behavior profile for the new entity based on feature data of the new ...