US Patent Issued to LEXISNEXIS RISK SOLUTIONS FL on July 15 for "Systems and methods for detecting and mitigating click farm fraud" (Swedish, British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,361,447, issued on July 15, was assigned to LEXISNEXIS RISK SOLUTIONS FL INC. (Boca Raton, Fla.).

"Systems and methods for detecting and mitigating click farm fraud" was invented by Tony Libell (Lulea, Sweden), Per Burstrom (Lulea, Sweden), Philip Lindblad (Lidingo, Sweden) and Lancelot Pregniard (London).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "System and methods are provided for mitigating click farm fraud by receiving network data and sensor data from a plurality of computing devices, extracting one or more features from the sensor data and the network data for each of the devices. The features represent one or more of a local physical environme...