US Patent Issued to CLOUDFLARE on Sept. 30 for "Business email compromise detection system" (California, Maryland Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,430,617, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to CLOUDFLARE INC. (San Francisco).

"Business email compromise detection system" was invented by Umalatha Batchu (Cupertino, Calif.), Torsten Zeppenfeld (Emerald Hills, Calif.), Blake Darche (Finksburg, Md.) and Philip Syme (Ellicott City, Md.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An email is received that is from an email sender. From the email, the display name of the email sender, an email address of the email sender, and an email domain of the email sender, is extracted. A score is determined for the email based on at least: the extracted display name of the email sender, the extracted email addres...