ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,457,237, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to Palo Alto Networks Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Automated generation of behavioral signatures for malicious web campaigns" was invented by William Russell Melicher (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Oleksii Starov (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Shresta Bellary Seetharam (Sunnyvale, Calif.) and Shaown Sarker (Santa Clara, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for automated generation of behavioral signatures for malicious web campaigns are disclosed. In some embodiments, a system/process/computer program product for automated generation of behavioral signatures for malicious web campaigns includes crawling a...