ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,260,005, issued on March 25, was assigned to Portal AI Inc. (Redwood City, Calif.).

"Methods and systems for verifying a user agent" was invented by Mohammad Naanaa (Hillsborough, Calif.), Volodymyr Panchenko (Hillsborough, Calif.), Manav Mehra (Toronto) and Ricardo Fornari (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for verifying a user agent includes transmitting, by a core node, to a user agent, a predefined set of user requests. For each user request in the predefined set of user requests, the core node receives an embedding generated based on the user request, thereby receiving a plurality of embeddings based on the p...