ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,585,765, issued on March 24, was assigned to Barracuda Networks Inc. (Campbell, Calif.).

"System and method for robust natural language classification under character encoding" was invented by Christopher L. Sawtelle (Santa Clara, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A new approach is proposed to support robust natural language classification under character encoding. A plurality of images that represent a plurality of characters under various language encoding schemes for a target language character are accepted and utilized to create a distribution of text similarity probabilities for the plurality of characters likely to be swapped/...