US Patent Issued to Amazon Technologies on Sept. 16 for "Detection of malicious domains" (New York, Colorado, New Jersey, Maryland Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,418,558, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to Amazon Technologies Inc. (Seattle).

"Detection of malicious domains" was invented by Jiahao Ding (Long Island City, N.Y.), Abhinandan Dubey (Jersey City, N.J.), Christopher Stinson (Columbia, Md.), Jeffrey Earl Bickford (Thornton, Colo.), Baris Coskun (Glen Rock, N.J.) and MohamadAli Torkamani (Scarsdale, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed are systems and methods that monitor for malicious and unauthorized behaviors, determine categories for detected malicious behaviors, determine why a domain is determined to be malicious, and provide information to users that identifies the categ...