US Patent Issued to Cisco Technology on March 4 for "Algorithm to detect malicious emails impersonating brands" (Canadian, American, Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,244,562, issued on March 4, was assigned to Cisco Technology Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Algorithm to detect malicious emails impersonating brands" was invented by Durgamadhav Behera (Karnatakka, India), Abhishek Singh (Morgan Hill, Calif.) and Muhammad Sachedina (Calgary, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for an email-security system to screen emails, extract information from the emails, analyze the information, assign probability scores to the emails, and classify the emails as likely fraudulent or not. The system may analyze emails for users and identify fraudulent emails by analyzing the contents of the emails. The syste...