ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,316,606, issued on May 27, was assigned to PROOFPOINT INC. (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

"Systems and methods for in-process URL condemnation" was invented by Pranay Harsadbhai Patel (Broomfield, Colo.) and Juan Marcelo Da Cruz Pinto (Portland, Ore.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A universal resource locator (URL) collider processes a click event referencing a URL and directs a browser to a page at the URL. While the page is being rendered by the browser with page data from a web server, the URL collider intercepts the page data including events associated with rendering the page, determines microfeatures of the page such as Document Object Model...