ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,445,462, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to Cujo LLC (Covina, Calif.).
"Technical support scam protection" was invented by James Mathews (Utrecht, Netherlands) and Michael Przybilski (Helsinki).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Data communication of a user apparatus via a customer-premises equipment (CPE) is intercepted. The CPE implements a local area network for the data communication of the user apparatus. First network traffic related to a remote access software in the user apparatus is detected in the data communication. Second network traffic related to an online banking software in the user apparatus is detected in the data communicat...