ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,284,103, issued on April 22, was assigned to CHANDLER WILKINSON LLC (Valley Village, Canada).

"Method and system for scoring quality of traffic to network sites" was invented by Vincent Granville (Issaquah, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A software and/or hardware facility for scoring the quality of traffic to a site accessible via the Internet or other network. The facility extracts data from one or more data logs that are obtained from a publisher, advertiser, or third party. A multi-factor analysis in the form of a rule set is applied by the facility to the data. The analysis of the data identifies agent actions that are desirabl...