US Patent Issued to McAfee on May 6 for "Phishing mitigation service" (Canadian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,294,611, issued on May 6, was assigned to McAfee LLC (San Jose, Calif.).

"Phishing mitigation service" was invented by Davoud Maha (Danville, Calif.), Mykhaylo Melnyk (Waterloo, Canada) and Lior Rudnik (Dublin, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "There is disclosed a method of providing passive phishing remediation for an enterprise, including: displaying, to a user of a mobile device, an email; receiving from the user a one-click request to perform additional analysis of the email; providing the email to a phishing mitigation service; assigning the email a reputation score, generating a human-readable reputation display for the email,...