ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,347,212, issued on July 1, was assigned to PROOFPOINT INC. (Sunnyvale, Calif.).
"Visual domain detection systems and methods" was invented by Gaurav Mitesh Dalal (Freemont, Calif.), Ali Mesdaq (San Jose, Calif.), Sharon Huffner (Berlin) and Harold Nguyen (San Carlos, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed is an effective domain name defense solution in which a domain name string may be provided to or obtained by a computer embodying a visual domain analyzer. The domain name string may be rendered or otherwise converted to an image. An optical character recognition function may be applied to the image to read out a text string whi...