US Patent Issued to GEN DIGITAL on Dec. 23 for "Identifying fake review systems to protect consumers from fraudulent e-commerce websites" (French, Greek, American, Irish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,505,456, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to GEN DIGITAL INC. (Tempe, Ariz.).

"Identifying fake review systems to protect consumers from fraudulent e-commerce websites" was invented by Platon Kotzias (Athens, Greece), Kevin Alejandro Roundy (El Segundo, Calif.), Iskander Sanchez Rola (Antibes, France), Michalis Pachilakis (Dublin) and Leylya Yumer (Antibes, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for detecting fraudulent e-commerce websites by identifying fake review systems are disclosed. In particular, some embodiments may identify an e-commerce website and download content contained on one or more product web pages of...