ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,724,835, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to YAHOO ASSETS LLC (New York).

"Method and system for webpage classification and content delivery" was invented by Eric Ye (San Jose, Calif.), Xiao Bai (San Jose, Calif.), Neil O'Hare (San Francisco), Eliyar Asgarieh (San Jose, Calif.), Kapil Thadani (New York), Francisco Perez-Sorrosal (San Francisco) and Sujyothi Adiga (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In some aspects, the techniques described herein relate to a method including: receiving, at a processor, an uncrawled URL corresponding to a webpage; applying, by the processor, a webpage classification model to the uncrawled URL ...