ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,682,029, issued on July 14, was assigned to Wells Fargo Bank N.A. (San Francisco).

"Scalable search and ranking of biometric signatures" was invented by Michelle L. Baker (Littleton, Colo.), Ajit Gaddam (Danville, Calif.), Qiong Gui (Santa Clara, Calif.) and Michael J. Quinlan (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are directed to detecting fraudulent activity based on biometric signatures. A capture component captures data associated with user interactions with a user interface displayed by a computing device. The captured data includes mouse movement. The captured data is converted into an image of the mouse ...