US Patent Issued to GEN DIGITAL on Dec. 16 for "Protecting against malicious websites using repetitive data signatures" (French, Greek, American, Irish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,500,924, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to GEN DIGITAL INC. (Tempe, Ariz.).

"Protecting against malicious websites using repetitive data signatures" was invented by Kevin Alejandro Roundy (El Segundo, Calif.), Platon Kotzias (Athens, Greece), Iskander Sanchez Rola (Antibes, France), Michalis Pachilakis (Dublin), Leylya Yumer (Antibes, France) and Acar Tamersoy (Culver City, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods for protecting against malicious websites using repetitive data signatures are disclosed. Some embodiments may identify known malicious websites and known safe websites. A first dataset containing data from one or more ar...