ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,332,961, issued on June 17, was assigned to Nvidia Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).
"Detecting malformed resource references" was invented by Andrew James Woodard (Buckinghamshire, Great Britain), Amy Rose (Chapel Hill, N.C.), Benjemin Thomas Waine (Cheshunt, Great Britain) and Christopher Schneider (Hillend, Great Britain).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Statistical analysis can be used to attempt to identify potentially malicious references, such as trap URLs. When a URL is utilized for a request, that request can be intercepted before analysis before that URL is resolved to an address. Portions of this URL, as well as the entire URL, can be...