ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,684,015, issued on July 14, was assigned to Cisco Technology Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).
"Systems and methods for detecting phishing emails using machine learning" was invented by Philipp Drieger (Munich), Tatsunobu Murata (Ichikawa, Japan), Namratha Sreekanta (Fremont, Calif.) and Huaibo Zhao (Shinjuku-ku, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosure provides for systems and methods directed to classifying emails as phishing or non-phishing through the use of machine learning. Preprocessing operations may be performed on the email that include removal of punctuation and changing all letters to lower case. Additionally, recipient and...