US Patent Issued to Mimecast Services on June 17 for "Systems and methods for detecting domain impersonation" (British, Israeli Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,335,305, issued on June 17, was assigned to Mimecast Services Ltd. (London).

"Systems and methods for detecting domain impersonation" was invented by Simon Paul Tyler (Wiltshire, Great Britain), Jackie Anne Maylor (Wiltshire, Great Britain), Paul Sowden (London) and Meni Farjon (Ramat Gan, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention is a security system providing domain name authentication for intrusion and malware prevention. The system is configured to analyze domain names, specifically analyze network metadata associated with said domain names, and further identify domain names attempting to impersonate or spoof domain names a...