ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,316,671, issued on May 27, was assigned to Mimecast Israel Ltd (Tel Aviv, Israel).

"Detection of impersonated web pages and other impersonation methods for web-based cyber threats" was invented by Meni Farjon (Tel Aviv, Israel), Yossi Sara (Rishon Le'Tsiyon, Israel), Boris Vaynberg (Netanya, Israel), Roi Panai (Ramat Gan, Israel), Ido Bukra (Netanya, Israel), Tomasz Kojm (Torun, Poland) and Jackie Maylor (London).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Identifying a malicious web page that impersonates a legitimate web page, including extracting HMTL source and a certificate for a specified web page, parsing the extracted HTML to identify objects,...