US Patent Issued to CyberHoot on Oct. 6 for "Positive reinforcement phishing identification simulations" (Delaware, North Carolina, New Hampshire Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,756,737, issued on Oct. 6, was assigned to CyberHoot LLC (Smyrna, Del.).

"Positive reinforcement phishing identification simulations" was invented by Charles Eugene Taylor (Smyrna, Del.), Bradley Margist (Charlotte, N.C.), Rafael Boquetti (Newark, Del.) and Craig Matthew Taylor (Hampton, N.H.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computerized platform for implementing a positive reinforcement-based educational campaign to increase awareness of indications of signs of unsafe e-mails is configured to perform a method utilizing an assignment-based approach to provide an assignment to a user in which the user is presented with a simulated e-mail i...