ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,309,172, issued on May 20, was assigned to Avast Software s.r.o. (Prague).
"Network attack prevention systems and methods" was invented by Armin Wasicek (El Cerrito, Calif.), Fabrizio Biondi (Granarolo dell'Emilia, Italy) and Thomas Salomon (Neukirch, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method for preventing access to potentially malicious network destinations. The method includes determining a plurality of network destinations and indicators of the plurality of network destinations including an indicator of a first network destination. A plurality of feature vectors are generated based on the plurality of network destina...