US Patent Issued to Cisco Technology on Dec. 23 for "Techniques for detecting and mitigating spoofed email communications" (American, Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,506,778, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to Cisco Technology Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Techniques for detecting and mitigating spoofed email communications" was invented by Suresh Gopathy (Alpharetta, Ga.) and Gajendar Pandey (Delhi, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques are described herein for detecting an authorization status for an email based on content included in that email. In embodiments, such techniques may comprise receiving an electronic communication associated with an origination address, identifying, within the electronic communication, information indicating a claimed source entity, determining, based on the inf...