ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,316,695, issued on May 27, was assigned to NETACEA Ltd. (Manchester, Great Britain).

"Method of processing a new visitor session to a web-based system" was invented by Mark Greenwood (Manchester, Great Britain), Matthew Jackson (Manchester, Great Britain) and John Modin (Manchester, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of processing a new visitor session to a web-based system, the method including: for each of a plurality of web requests made to the web-based system in the new visitor session, determining a request vector corresponding to the web request, wherein each request vector is derived from the learned parameters...