ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,380,217, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Federated generative models for website assessment" was invented by Ambrish Rawat (Dublin), Stefano Braghin (Dublin), Killian Levacher (Dublin), Ngoc Minh Tran (Dublin) and Giulio Zizzo (Dublin).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method, computer program, and computer system are provided for predicting and assessing risks on websites. Data corresponding to historical interactions of a user with one or more websites is accessed. A simulation of actions of the user is generated based on the accessed data, and actions of the user are simulated on a...