US Patent Issued to McAfee on Nov. 3 for "Reputation clusters for uniform resource locators" (California, Minnesota Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,786,150, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to McAfee LLC (San Jose, Calif.).

"Reputation clusters for uniform resource locators" was invented by German Lancioni (San Jose, Calif.) and John Wagener (West Lakeland, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "There is disclosed an example of one or more tangible, non-transitory computer-readable storage media, including instructions to: enumerate domain names newly registered in a time window; build a dictionary from the newly registered domain names; cluster the domain names, including performing a spell check with the dictionary to identify similar domain names; for a selected cluster, identify one ...