US Patent Issued to Yahoo Assets on Oct. 28 for "Machine learning and validation of account names, addresses, and/or identifiers" (Virginia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,456,064, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to Yahoo Assets LLC (New York).

"Machine learning and validation of account names, addresses, and/or identifiers" was invented by Donald J. McQueen (Leesburg, Va.) and Lachlan A. Maxwell (Ashburn, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are disclosed for determining if an account identifier is computer-generated. One method includes receiving the account identifier, dividing the account identifier into a plurality of fragments, and determining one or more features of at least one of the fragments. The method further includes determining the commonness of at least one of the fragment...