ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,277,418, issued on April 15, was assigned to eBay Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Bad change detector for operational features of digital platforms" was invented by Haoshuang Li (Shanghai), Wentao Li (Shanghai) and Liangfei Su (Shanghai).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A bad change detector for operational features of digital platforms is described. Metric data from a website is acquired by the bad change detector while implementing a first version of an operational feature of the website and while implementing a second version of the operational feature. A bad change to the website is detected by measuring an inequality among values of a frequen...