ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,417,505, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to Capital One Services LLC (McLean, Va.).

"Detecting reliability across the internet after scraping" was invented by Leeyat Bracha Tessler (Arlington, Va.), Robert Mays (Midlothian, Va.), Tyler Maiman (Melville, N.Y.) and Juwan Byrd (Henrico, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In some implementations, a reliability modeler may receive a plurality of webpages associated with a first entity from an Internet scraping device. The reliability modeler may detect, within the plurality of webpages, at least one of a logo, a font, or a color. The reliability modeler may apply a model, trained on a set o...