US Patent Issued to Palo Alto Networks on April 1 for "Application identification for phishing detection" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,267,359, issued on April 1, was assigned to Palo Alto Networks Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Application identification for phishing detection" was invented by Rongbo Shao (San Jose, Calif.), Bo Qu (Saratoga, Calif.), Zhanglin He (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Shengming Xu (San Jose, Calif.) and Amy Lee (Milpitas, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for application identification for phishing detection are disclosed. In some embodiments, a system/process/computer program product for application identification for phishing detection includes monitoring network activity associated with a session to detect a request to access a site; dete...