US Patent Issued to GOOGLE on March 24 for "Detecting a homoglyph in a string of characters" (California, Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,586,398, issued on March 24, was assigned to GOOGLE LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Detecting a homoglyph in a string of characters" was invented by Aaron Michael Brown (Seattle), Pranoy Kovuri (Santa Clara, Calif.) and Liam Charles MacDermed (Millbrae, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for detecting a homoglyph in an input text includes receiving a first string of characters and deobfuscating the first string of characters to generate a second string of characters. When at least one character from the first string of characters has replaced another character in the second string of characters based on the deobfuscating, the ...