ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,671,704, issued on June 30, was assigned to Bitdefender IPR Management Ltd. (Nicosia, Cyprus).
"Targeted prevention of online fraud" was invented by Marius M. Tivadar (Baia Mare, Romania), Alexandru P. Marinescu (Dumbravita, Romania), Alexandra S. Bocereg (Timisoara, Romania) and Cristian I. Vijdea (Timisoara, Romania).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Some embodiments implement a targeted notification of potential victims of online fraud, such as fishing, among others. A security server protects a plurality of client devices by using telemetry data harvested from each device to construct a device-specific client profile. The client profile ...