US Patent Issued to OLX GLOBAL on July 14 for "Fraud prevention through friction point implementation" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,682,361, issued on July 14, was assigned to OLX GLOBAL B.V. (Hoofddorp, Netherlands).

"Fraud prevention through friction point implementation" was invented by Till Riffert (Berlin), Verica Katic (Berlin) and Carolina Rincon (Berlin).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided are systems and methods for inserting friction points into a user session with an online resource such as a website or mobile application. In one example, the method may include receiving user data, predicting a likelihood that the user will behave inappropriately when interacting with an online resource of the host platform based on the received user data, determining a...