ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,688,249, issued on July 21, was assigned to PayPal Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Method and system for detecting slow page load" was invented by J. Thomas Monk IV (Mountain View, Calif.) and Hemal Doshi (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and system for detecting slow page load is provided. An example system comprises a page request detector, a time-out module, a time-out monitor, and a lightweight page requestor. The page request detector may be configured to detect a request for a web page. The time-out module may be configured to commence a time-out period in response to a request for a web page. The time-out module ...