ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,445,496, issued on Oct. 14.
"Enhancing email security by consolidating email policy management" was invented by Kishore Swaminathan (Willowbrook, Ill.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Via a DNS record, an Internet domain designates a website as a Domain Email Authority (DEA): a consolidated entity that collects, validates, and stores all email-related policies of the domain to distribute them to the DNS, email servers, email clients, and end-users. Simple embodiments of this invention can be implemented without changes to existing email standards, servers, or clients, and can provide considerable benefits such as enhanced security and redu...