US Patent Issued to PAYPAL on Sept. 23 for "Method, medium, and system for automatic data extraction from web pages and analysis thereof" (Israeli Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,423,735, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to PAYPAL INC. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Method, medium, and system for automatic data extraction from web pages and analysis thereof" was invented by Olga Sharshevsky (Holon, Israel), Yael Cohen (Tel Aviv, Israel) and Elina Nemtsov (Kfar Saba, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides a method of automatically extracting data from web pages and analyzing the extracted data to generate an output. A plurality of web pages of a plurality of merchants is accessed. Based on the accessing of the web pages, a subset of the plurality of web pages is identified as inventory pages ...