ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,513,190, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Snapshot for activity detection and threat analysis" was invented by Eitam Meisel (Ra'anana, Israel), Meir Baruch Blachman (Jerusalem) and Tomer Cherni (Gany Tikva, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments of the technology described herein identify and mitigate phishing attempts by analyzing user input using a client-side proxy component and a proxy server. Embodiments disclosed herein provide systems, methods, and computer-storage media for employing proxy server capabilities in conjunction with a snapshot capturing an image or vi...