US Patent Issued to AT&T Intellectual Property I on July 15 for "Method and system for detection of phishing emails and suspect malicious executable hyperlinks" (New York, Georgia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,363,164, issued on July 15, was assigned to AT&T Intellectual Property I LP (Atlanta).

"Method and system for detection of phishing emails and suspect malicious executable hyperlinks" was invented by Joseph Soryal (Glendale, N.Y.) and Dylan Reid (Atlanta).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, receiving, at a device, a message over a communication network from a remote source, determining if the message includes executable code and initiating a virtual machine in an isolated portion of the memory of the device responsive to the determining the message include executable code. Aspects of ...