ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,355,792, issued on July 8, was assigned to Palo Alto Networks Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).
"Strategically aged domain detection" was invented by Zhanhao Chen (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Daiping Liu (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Wanjin Li (Santa Clara, Calif.) and Fan Fei (San Jose, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Detection of strategically aged domains is detected. A list of aged dormant domains is determined, including by evaluating passive Domain Name System (DNS) information. The list of aged dormant domains is monitored for a change by an aged dormant domain from a dormant domain status to an active status. In response to determining the change ...