ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,255,903, issued on March 18, was assigned to Yahoo Ad Tech LLC (New York).

"Identifying fraudulent requests for content" was invented by Gaurav Chaula (New Delhi) and Kavind Aggarwal (Delhi, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "One or more computing devices, systems, and/or methods for determining whether requests for content are fraudulent are provided. A request for content may be received from a first device. A first user profile associated with the first device may be identified. The first user profile may comprise activity information associated with the first device, demographic information associated with the first device and/or ...