US Patent Issued to Netskope on July 15 for "Webpage categorization based on image classification of webpage screen capture" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,361,680, issued on July 15, was assigned to Netskope Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Webpage categorization based on image classification of webpage screen capture" was invented by Rongrong Tao (Fremont, Calif.), Jason Bryslawskyj (San Diego), Yi Zhang (Santa Clara, Calif.), Dong Guo (San Jose, Calif.) and Yihua Liao (Palo Alto, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A network security system that classifies webpages and uses the classification of the webpages to enforce relevant security policies is disclosed. To classify a webpage, a screenshot of at least a portion of the webpage is captured. An embedding engine generates a subject image ...