US Patent Issued to Microsoft Technology Licensing on June 24 for "Detecting malicious behavior using an accomplice model" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,341,811, issued on June 24, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Detecting malicious behavior using an accomplice model" was invented by Adam Hunt (El Cerrito, Calif.), Joseph Linn (Emeryville, Calif.), Nick Goodman (San Mateo, Calif.), Elias Manousos (San Francisco), Chris Kiernan (San Francisco), David Pon (Sunnyvale, Calif.) and Jonas Edgeworth (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure generally relates to web page analysis, and more particularly to detecting malicious behavior using an accomplice model. In certain embodiments, the accomplice model may determine that a URI is...