US Patent Issued to Oxylabs, UAB on April 29 for "Generating a path to a document element using machine learning" (Lithuanian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,287,837, issued on April 29, was assigned to Oxylabs, UAB (Vilnius, Lithuania).

"Generating a path to a document element using machine learning" was invented by Karolis Kluonaitis (Vilnius, Lithuania), Martynas Juravicius (Vilnius, Lithuania) and Andrius Kuksta (Vilnius, Lithuania).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein are system, method, and computer program product embodiments for improving web scraping technology by using machine learning to generate parsing expressions. A system receives a request to identify an element in a first document at a target web page. The system downloads and modifies the first document by adding an...