ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,395,563, issued on Aug. 19, was assigned to Capital One Services LLC (McLean, Va.).

"Systems and methods for visitor identification using device graphs and community detection" was invented by Sumit Daryani (Ashburn, Va.) and Kye Bae (Cedar Park, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for identifying a visitor device to a website may include capturing device identification information of the visiting device(s). The identification information may include device fingerprints, cookies, domain user identifications and/or other identifiers (e.g., IP addresses, visiting history, etc.). Based on the device identification information, a...