ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,393,672, issued on Aug. 19, was assigned to Amazon Technologies Inc. (Seattle).
"Device-based bot detection for sign-in threat detection" was invented by Venkatesh Sridharan (Mississauga, Canada), Kuan Yu (Markham, Canada), Chen Yao (North York, Canada) and Leo Brennan (Bury Saint Edmunds, Great Britain).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method includes receiving information indicative of a sign-in request associated with an account registered on a service; determining whether the sign-in request comprises a fingerprint, wherein the fingerprint comprises one or more attributes associated with an interaction of a user during a sign-in on th...