US Patent Issued to Cisco Technology on Jan. 20 for "Techniques for detecting and mitigating spoofed email communications" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,531,898, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to Cisco Technology Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Techniques for detecting and mitigating spoofed email communications" was invented by Abhishek Singh (Morgan Hill, Calif.) and Shray Kapoor (Fremont, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques are described herein for detecting an invalid (e.g., spoof) email before it is received by an intended recipient. In some embodiments, the techniques may involve, upon receiving an electronic communication directed to an intended recipient, determining, based on information included in the electronic communication, a claimed source entity, and determining a...