US Patent Issued to Microsoft Technology Licensing on Oct. 7 for "Phishing URL detection using transformers" (Washington, Ohio Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,438,912, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Phishing URL detection using transformers" was invented by Jack Wilson Stokes III (North Bend, Wash.), Pranav Ravindra Maneriker (Columbus, Ohio), Arunkumar Gururajan (Sammamish, Wash.), Diana Anca Carutasu (Bellevue, Wash.) and Edir Vinicio Garcia Lazo (Seattle).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The technology described herein can identify phishing URLs using transformers. The technology tokenizes useful features from the subject URL. The useful features can include the text of the URL and other data associated with the URL, such as certificate d...