US Patent Issued to PAYPAL on May 13 for "Extracting webpage features using coded data packages for page heuristics" (Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,299,053, issued on May 13, was assigned to PAYPAL INC. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Extracting webpage features using coded data packages for page heuristics" was invented by David Phillips (Edgewood, Wash.) and Matthew Gervasio (Seattle).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "There are provided systems and methods for extracting webpage features using coded data packages for page heuristics. A service provider server may provide website agnostic tools that account for differences in webpage layouts. This may be done using coded data packages designed to consider webpage heuristics of different webpages. These data packages include entries that have a te...