US Patent Issued to Bank of America on June 24 for "Information security system and method for phishing website identification based on image hashing" (British, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,341,813, issued on June 24, was assigned to Bank of America Corp. (Charlotte, N.C.).

"Information security system and method for phishing website identification based on image hashing" was invented by Peter George Kurrasch (Palatine, Ill.) and Martin Andrew Sutton (Broughton, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for detecting phishing websites accesses a website that comprises a plurality of images. The system extracts the plurality of images from the website. The system generates a hash value for each image from the plurality of images. Each hash value uniquely identifies its corresponding image. The system generates a ...