ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,542,796, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).
"Dark pattern detection and mitigation" was invented by Mary Diane Swift (Rochester, N.Y.), Irene Lizeth Manotas Gutierrez (White Plains, N.Y.), Jonathan D. Dunne (Dungarvan, Ireland) and Daphne Coates (St. Leonards on Sea, Great Britain).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A user is detected navigating to a webpage. A plurality of web elements of the webpage is identified. One or more web elements is determined to have a risk score that surpasses a risk threshold of being a dark pattern. The risk score is identified by analyzing each of the plurali...