US Patent Issued to PROOFPOINT on April 15 for "System and method for identifying cyberthreats from unstructured social media content" (California Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,277,231, issued on April 15, was assigned to PROOFPOINT INC. (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

"System and method for identifying cyberthreats from unstructured social media content" was invented by Daniel Clark Salo (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A cyberthreat detection system queries a content database for unstructured content that contains a set of keywords, clusters the unstructured content into clusters based on topics, and determines a cybersecurity cluster utilizing a list of vetted cybersecurity phrases. The set of keywords represents a target of interest such as a newly discovered cyberthreat, an entity, a brand, or a combi...