US Patent Issued to The Nielsen Company (US) on April 29 for "Systems and methods for monitoring malicious software engaging in online advertising fraud or other form of deceit" (Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,288,223, issued on April 29, was assigned to The Nielsen Co. (US) LLC (New York).

"Systems and methods for monitoring malicious software engaging in online advertising fraud or other form of deceit" was invented by Hadi Shiravi Khozani (Fredericton, Canada), Ehsan Mokhtari (Fredericton, Canada), Sergei Frankoff (Fredericton, Canada) and Mohammad Ali Shiravi Khozani (Fredericton, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for monitoring malicious software engaging in online advertising fraud or other form of deceit are disclosed herein. An example method includes identifying a communication process used by a compromised comp...