US Patent Issued to PAYPAL on July 14 for "Automated domain crawler and checkout simulator for proactive and real-time scam website detection" (Arizona Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,682,362, issued on July 14, was assigned to PAYPAL INC. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Automated domain crawler and checkout simulator for proactive and real-time scam website detection" was invented by Marzieh Bitaab (Chandler, Ariz.), Adam Oest (Fountain Hills, Ariz.) and Muhammad Saad (Phoenix).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "There are provided systems and methods for an automated domain crawler and checkout simulator for proactive and real-time scam website detection. A service provider, such as an online transaction processor, may provide a domain crawler and checkout simulator that may be used to detect scam websites when registered and/or con...