US Patent Issued to PAYPAL on Nov. 11 for "Systems and methods for classifying accounts based on shared attributes with known fraudulent accounts" (Israeli, Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,469,035, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to PAYPAL INC. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Systems and methods for classifying accounts based on shared attributes with known fraudulent accounts" was invented by Chuanyun Fang (Shanghai), Chunmao Ran (Shanghai), Itzik Levi (Tel-Aviv, Israel), Kun Fu (Shanghai), Adam Cohen (Acre, Israel), Avishay Meron (Holon, Israel), Doron Hai-Reuven (Kfar-Saba, Israel) and Amnon Jislin (Timrat, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems are presented for classifying a particular user account as a fraudulent user account by analyzing links between the user account and two or more known fraudulent user ac...