US Patent Issued to PayPal on March 24 for "Detecting suspicious entities" (Israeli Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,587,566, issued on March 24, was assigned to PayPal Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Detecting suspicious entities" was invented by Iulian-Corneliu-Ran Locar (Tel Aviv, Israel) and Tomer Handelman (Givatayim, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques are disclosed relating to automatically determining whether an entity is malicious. In some embodiments, a server computer system generates a feature vector for an unknown website, where generating the feature vector includes preprocessing a plurality of structural features of the unknown website. In some embodiments, the system inputs the feature vector for the unknown website into a train...