ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,531,899, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to Amazon Technologies Inc. (Seattle).
"Techniques for bot detection" was invented by Zhiyuan Cao (Seattle), Yutong Chen (Redmond, Wash.), Leah Autumn Thompkins (Seattle), Min Shi (Sammamish, Wash.) and Jiajin Li (Bellevue, Wash.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques are provided herein for detecting bot activity. Tasks associated with one or more delivery sub-tasks can be provided to various user devices. The task requests received from the user devices can be processed according to a variety of factors to determine a likelihood that the task requests were initiated by a bot. In some embodime...