US Patent Issued to PayPal on March 11 for "Context-enhanced category classification to generate product category labels used to conduct electronic transactions based on regulatory restrictions" (Singaporean, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,248,944, issued on March 11, was assigned to PayPal Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Context-enhanced category classification to generate product category labels used to conduct electronic transactions based on regulatory restrictions" was invented by Van Hoang Nguyen (Singapore), Francesco Gelli (Singapore), Zhe Chen (Singapore), Hewen Wang (Singapore), Quan Jin Ferdinand Tang (Singapore), Amit Nahata (Milpitas, Calif.) and Rushik Navinbhai Upadhyay (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems/techniques for facilitating context-enhanced category classification are provided. In various embodiments, a system can access a first text...