ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,306,940, issued on May 20, was assigned to McAfee LLC (San Jose, Calif.).

"Methods and apparatus to implement trusted transfer learning on transformer-based phishing detection" was invented by Yonghong Huang (Portland, Ore.), Steve Grobman (Plano, Texas) and John Wagener (St. Paul, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, apparatus, systems, and articles of manufacture are disclosed to implement trusted transfer learning on transformer-based phishing detection. In some examples, an apparatus includes processor circuitry to perform instructions to instantiate circuitry. The instantiated circuitry provides a uniform resource locator (...