ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,323,462, issued on June 3, was assigned to Proofpoint Inc. (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

"Identifying legitimate websites to remove false positives from domain discovery analysis" was invented by Hung-Jen Chang (Freemont, Calif.), Gaurav Mitesh Dalal (Fremont, Calif.) and Ali Mesdaq (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects of the disclosure relate to identifying legitimate websites and removing false positives from domain discovery analysis. Based on a list of known legitimate domains, a computing platform may generate a baseline dataset of feature vectors corresponding to the known legitimate domains. Subsequently, the computing p...