ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,603,899, issued on April 14, was assigned to PayPal Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Device analytics engine" was invented by Anupam Tarsauliya (Hyderabad, India), Ravi Shanker Sandepudi (Hyderabad, India), Yugal Sharma (Hyderabad, India) and Sai Krishna Pinna (Telangana, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, methods, and computer program products for identifying a fraudulent device. A device analytics engine receives device data from a computing device, the device data including parameters associated with the computing device. The device analytics engine selects a set of rules in a plurality of rules that indicate at least one paramet...