ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,380,470, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to EL TORO.COM LLC (Louisville, Ky.).

"Determining IP addresses that are associated with physical locations with new occupants and providing advertisements tailored to new movers to one or more of those IP addresses" was invented by Stacy B. Griggs (Louisville, Ky.), David T. Stadler III (Louisville, Ky.), Richard M. Teachout III (Louisville, Ky.) and Benjamin Charles Woolley (Bothell, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods related to determining and utilizing one or more attributes to associate with an IP addresses. Attributes are determined based on request data provided with requests from a...