US Patent Issued to State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance on Aug. 12 for "Spam forecasting and preemptive blocking of predicted spam origins" (Illinois Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,388,777, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Co. (Bloomington, Ill.).

"Spam forecasting and preemptive blocking of predicted spam origins" was invented by Jason Hamilton (Bloomington, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system is configured to analyze large volumes of sample emails from past spam campaigns to identify homogeneous features, as well as systematically heterogeneous features, which spam originators fail to obfuscate. By extracting origin-referencing features therefrom, the system predicts that spam originators will mass-acquire domain names at certain registrars for the purpose of futu...