US Patent Issued to Pinterest on Sept. 23 for "Data extraction approach for retail crawling engine" (California, Colorado Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,423,361, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to Pinterest Inc. (San Francisco).

"Data extraction approach for retail crawling engine" was invented by Amit Aggarwal (Los Altos, Calif.), Andrey Zaytsev (Fort Collins, Colo.) and Ruslan Gilfanov (Boulder, Colo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer system extracts product data from a website and correlates product records from multiple sources to one another as corresponding to the same product. A website is crawled efficiently by rendering webpages using a virtual browser that ignores blacklisted elements, extracts data from objects without rendering, and suppressing retrieval of remote r...