ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,542,800, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to GOOGLE LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Malicious domain monitoring and filtering using drift monitoring and contextual data" was invented by Jerry McClurg (Savannah, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Example embodiments of the present disclosure provide for an example method including generating a baseline set of domains by comparing domains of interest to a group of existing registered domains. The domains of interest are generated using a permutation engine based on a first domain. The example method includes periodically generating a dynamic set of domains by comparing the domains of interest...