US Patent Issued to Chicago Mercantile Exchange on April 7 for "Electronic mail security system" (Illinois, Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,598,196, issued on April 7, was assigned to Chicago Mercantile Exchange Inc. (Chicago).

"Electronic mail security system" was invented by Thomas Anthony Kemp (Aurora, Ill.), Metin Carlos DePaolis (Chicago), William Robert Gemza Jr. (Pearland, Texas) and Ryan Jerome Whalen (Oswego, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method includes, in response to receiving an email message, detecting one or more artifacts within an email message, wherein each of the artifacts is associated with a payload; for each artifact, generating, a descriptor object representing the artifact that does not include the payload, so that the processor is prevented f...