US Patent Issued to Trend Micro on April 1 for "Identifying similar geographically proximate infrastructures from a known network address" (Canadian, Philippine, French, German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,267,344, issued on April 1, was assigned to Trend Micro Inc. (Tokyo).

"Identifying similar geographically proximate infrastructures from a known network address" was invented by Numaan Mehryar Huq (Toronto), Roel Sotto Reyes (Rizal, Philippines), Morton Gregory Swimmer (Wedel, Germany) and Vincenzo Ciancaglini (Paca, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Similar geographically proximate infrastructures are identified from a received compromised Internet protocol (IP) address of a compromised infrastructure. The geographic location of the compromised infrastructure is determined from the compromised IP address. The geographic locations of...