US Patent Issued to MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING on Feb. 10 for "Leveraging publisher profile and reputation to mitigate malicious activity" (Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,547,714, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Leveraging publisher profile and reputation to mitigate malicious activity" was invented by Maxim Vainstein (Redmond, Wash.), Andrew Michael Friedrich (Sammamish, Wash.), Danut Antoche-Albisor (Sammamish, Wash.), Kevin Robert Tremblay (Snohomish, Wash.), Yulia Pakman (Issaquah, Wash.), Daniel Alan Pagan (Redmond, Wash.) and Ruizhi Sun (Redmond, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The techniques disclosed herein enable systems to leverage publisher profile and reputation to detect malware and block malicious actors. This is accomplished by o...