US Patent Issued to Gen Digital on June 17 for "Systems and methods for verifying social media accounts to prevent identity-based attacks on social media platforms" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,333,051, issued on June 17, was assigned to Gen Digital Inc. (Tempe, Ariz.).

"Systems and methods for verifying social media accounts to prevent identity-based attacks on social media platforms" was invented by Daniel Kats (Culver City, Calif.) and Daniel Marino (Los Angeles).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosed computer-implemented method for verifying social media accounts to prevent identity-based attacks on social media platforms may include (i) detecting identity data for an owner of a set of auxiliary social media accounts on a group of client devices, (ii) verifying, a core social media account, based at least in part on th...