ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,261,882, issued on March 25, was assigned to Yahoo Ad Tech LLC (New York).
"Identifying fraudulent requests for content" was invented by Robert Jason Harris (Urbana, Ill.), Jaime Morales Jr. (Urbana, Ill.), Ruichen Wang (Champaign, Ill.), Helen W Xie (Cambridge, Mass.) and Jian Tian (Champaign, Ill.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "One or more computing devices, systems, and/or methods are provided. A request for content associated with a device and/or a set of request information associated with the request for content may be received. A content item may be transmitted to the device. A set of client information associated with the device...