US Patent Issued to PAYPAL on April 22 for "Detecting malicious email addresses using email metadata indicators" (Singaporean Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,284,194, issued on April 22, was assigned to PAYPAL INC. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Detecting malicious email addresses using email metadata indicators" was invented by George Chen Kaidi (Singapore).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "There are provided systems and methods for detecting malicious email addresses using email metadata indicators. Digital accounts may be attacked by malicious computing processes or other actions that attempt to compromise the security of accounts and/or perform account takeovers. To increase security of the accounts and account data, the service provider may interface with a digital address and/or identifier provider, s...