ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,597,065, issued on April 7, was assigned to eBay Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).
"Probabilistic account linking" was invented by Sahana Chattopadhyay Debnath (San Jose, Calif.) and Thomas Schweiger (Seattle).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Some aspects relate to technologies for probabilistic account linking, for instance, to perform fraud detection on online transaction platforms. In accordance with some configurations, linking strategies are defined for linking accounts based on account attributes. An average linking probability is generated for each linking strategy using account data for accounts on an online transaction platform, and the ave...