ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,425,418, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to Zimperium Inc. (Dallas).

"Malicious website detection using certificate classifier" was invented by Nicolas Chiaraviglio (Barcelona, Spain) and Santiago Andres Rodriguez Gonzalez (Cordoba, Argentina).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and a method are disclosed for detecting a malicious website. In an embodiment, a computing device detects a uniform resource locator (URL) referencing an unknown website; pre-processes the URL to determine a first probability that the unknown website is malicious; and inputs the first probability into a machine learning model to receive a second probability...