ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,640,945, issued on May 26, was assigned to PayPal Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Generation of user-specific time-to-live values using machine learning" was invented by Yuan Deng (Singapore) and Rajesh Bala Kancharla (Singapore).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques are disclosed relating to generating user-specific time-to-live (TTL) values using machine learning. In various embodiments, a server system maintains a cache data store that is operable to store data for a plurality of users of a web service. In response to a cache miss for a request from a first one of the plurality of users, the server system may generate a user-specific TTL ...