US Patent Issued to AMAZON TECHNOLOGIES on March 4 for "Systems for determining anomalous interactions based on characteristic types" (Washington, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,242,557, issued on March 4, was assigned to AMAZON TECHNOLOGIES INC. (Seattle).

"Systems for determining anomalous interactions based on characteristic types" was invented by Vaibhav Gorde (Seattle), Sarthak Ghosh (Seattle), Yan Zhang (Bellevue, Wash.), Radu Drossu (Seattle) and Asaph Engel (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Anomalous interactions with a website or other system may be detected based on the types of characteristics associated with previous anomalous interactions, independent of the values associated with those characteristics. Historical data is used to determine characteristics of interactions, each characteristic...