ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,432,224, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to Palo Alto Networks Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Proactive malicious newly registered domain detection" was invented by Zhanhao Chen (Sunnyvale, Calif.) and Daiping Liu (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present application discloses a method, system, and computer system for determining whether a registered domain is malicious. The method includes that a newly registered domain is registered, applying a malicious domain detector in connection with determining whether the newly registered domain is malicious, and in response to determining that the newly registered domain is ...