ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,452,302, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to PayPal Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Detection of user interface imitation" was invented by Meethil Vijay Yadav (Phoenix) and Eric Nunes (Scottsdale, Ariz.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A server computer system receives a set of Internet domain names and generates screenshots for user interfaces associated with the set of Internet domain names. The server computer system then trains machine learning modules that are customized for the set of Internet domain names using the screenshots. The server then transmits the machine learning modules to the computing device, where the machine learning module...