US Patent Issued to Bank of America on Oct. 20 for "Intelligent technical web-based approach leveraging web scrapper and random forest algorithm to detect phishing emails and SMS" (Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,771,720, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to Bank of America Corp. (Charlotte, N.C.).

"Intelligent technical web-based approach leveraging web scrapper and random forest algorithm to detect phishing emails and SMS" was invented by Sivashalini Sivajothi (Chennai, India), Maneesh Kumar Sethia (Hyderabad, India), Boddu Vikas Teja (Chandanagar, India) and Ankit Kumar Sahoo (Hyderabad, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and processes are disclosed for detecting phishing emails and text messages. The method involves accessing the internet to gather data from various online sources, executing multi-threaded downloaders to handle multip...