US Patent Issued to Palo Alto Networks on May 13 for "Inline malicious URL detection with hierarchical structure patterns" (California, Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,301,621, issued on May 13, was assigned to Palo Alto Networks Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Inline malicious URL detection with hierarchical structure patterns" was invented by Yubao Zhang (Palo Alto, Calif.), Fang Liu (Lubbock, Texas), Peng Peng (Santa Clara, Calif.) and Oleksii Starov (Santa Clara, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A hierarchical structure constructor constructs a hierarchical structure that comprises nodes associated with feature sets patterns of URLs. Nodes at each depth are labelled as malicious, benign, or mixed for corresponding to URLs that are malicious, benign, or malicious and benign that match the correspo...