ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,381,838, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to SOPHOS Ltd. (Abingdon, Great Britain).

"Stateful email detection using schemaless data fragments" was invented by John Mears (Carmarthen, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-implemented method includes sending email scan requests to an email scanner. The method further includes receiving, from the email scanner, a verdict of suspicion and one or more data fragments. The method further includes storing the one or more data fragments for each email of the plurality of emails in a datastore. The method further includes receiving a new email. The method further includes deriving o...