ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,647,437, issued on June 2, was assigned to Wells Fargo Bank N.A. (San Francisco).

"Detection of anomalous activity of components of external computing systems" was invented by Daniel Fricano (San Francisco), Cheng Tcha Vue (San Francisco), Robert I. Kirby (Charlotte, N.C.), Shawn Wallis (Fremont, Calif.), John Finn (Moorsville, N.C.) and Shane Dale Cross (Matthews, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for monitoring particular communication interfaces linked with external computing systems are provided. The system includes a processing circuit configured to establish a communication interface compatible with a communica...