ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,335,306, issued on June 17, was assigned to Intercontinental Exchange Holdings Inc. (Atlanta).
"System and method for searching for and identifying unauthorized websites" was invented by Tony Drake (Woodstock, Ga.) and Bryant Renfroe (Atlanta).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems or searching for and identifying unauthorized websites. A website detection system may receive website data from a data provider via a communications network and store the website data in a website data database. The website detection system may compare the website data to template data of known unauthorized sites to determine a level of similarity,...