ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,231,464, issued on Feb. 18, was assigned to Netskope Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).
"Detecting phishing websites via a machine learning-based system using URL feature hashes, HTML encodings and embedded images of content pages" was invented by Ari Azarafrooz (Rancho Santa Margarita, Calif.), Yihua Liao (Fremont, Calif.), Zhi Xu (Cupertino, Calif.) and Najmeh Miramirkhani (Santa Clara, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed is phishing classifier that classifies a URL and content page accessed via the URL as phishing or not is disclosed, with URL feature hasher that parses and hashes the URL to produce feature hashes, and headless b...