ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,701,117, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to DigiCert Inc. (Lehi, Utah).
"Pre-validating an email recipient and domain" was invented by Avesta Hojjati (Austin, Texas).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for validating email recipients are provided. A method, according to one implementation, includes a step of obtaining a recipient email address entered in an address field of an email message that is being composed by a sender. The method also includes a step of checking validity of the recipient email address and a domain associated with the recipient email address, to identify one or more possible issues in the recipient emai...