ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,675,538, issued on July 7, was assigned to PAYPAL INC. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Guided web crawler for automated identification and verification of webpage resources" was invented by Sourish Mukherjee (Bengaluru, India), Dalvinder Singh (Fremont, Calif.), Elanselvan Ganesan (Tirunelveli, India), Subhadip Panja (Bangalore Urban, India), Subramania Jeeva Kandasamy (Chennai, India), Vikram Ramakrishnan (Chennai, India) and Vishak S. Bharadwaj (Bangalore Urban, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "There are provided systems and methods for a guided web crawler for automated identification and verification of webpage resources. A service provider,...