ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,470,599, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to Abnormal AI Inc. (Las Vegas).

"Abuse mailbox for facilitating discovery, investigation, and analysis of email-based threats" was invented by Evan Reiser (San Francisco), Jeremy Kao (San Francisco), Cheng-Lin Yeh (San Francisco), Yea So Jung (San Mateo, Calif.), Kai Jing Jiang (San Francisco), Abhijit Bagri (San Francisco), Su Li Debbie Tan (San Francisco), Venkatram Krishnamoorthi (San Francisco) and Fang Shuo Deng (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "It is determined that a first email is present in a mailbox where emails deemed suspicious are placed for analysis. In response to deter...