ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,363,161, issued on July 15, was assigned to PayPal Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).
"Neutralizing evasion techniques of malicious websites" was invented by Adam Oest (Scottsdale, Ariz.), Penghui Zhang (Phoenix) and Raoul Johnson (Scottsdale, Ariz.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques are disclosed relating to methods that include a process, executing on a computer system, receiving a request to access a website, and altering the request to include one or more characteristics of anti-malware scanners. The method further includes the process sending the altered request to the website, and receiving a response to the altered request. The metho...