US Patent Issued to Gen Digital on Jan. 13 for "Systems and methods for preventing social engineering scam attacks by utilizing trusted communication channels for digital services" (Irish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,526,312, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to Gen Digital Inc. (Tempe, Ariz.).

"Systems and methods for preventing social engineering scam attacks by utilizing trusted communication channels for digital services" was invented by David Luz Silva (Dublin) and Johann Roturier (Maynooth, Ireland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-implemented method for preventing social engineering scam attacks by utilizing trusted communication channels for digital services may include (i) detecting a communication attempt associated with accessing a digital service over a communication channel, (ii) determining whether the communication channel is an ...