US Patent Issued to MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING on Sept. 29 for "Phishing protection" (Israeli Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,750,401, issued on Sept. 29, was assigned to MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Phishing protection" was invented by Netanel Hadad (Lod, Israel), Orr Srour (Ramat Hasharon, Israel) and Assaf Bar-Ness (Rehovot, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Phishing protection utilizes a security identifier displayed in association with secure content. The identifier may be displayed separately for comparison. A security identifier may be generated by a user interface, local source, or remote source. Users may visually and/or physically confirm identifiers. An identifier may be a character string or QR code. Phishing attempts m...