US Patent Issued to Palo Alto Networks on Aug. 11 for "Artificial bot detection for conferencing apps" (American, Italian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,706,936, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to Palo Alto Networks Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Artificial bot detection for conferencing apps" was invented by Anurag Mukund Phadke (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Francesco Vigo (Milan), Paul Minh Pho Nguyen (Lathrop, Calif.), Sreejith Rajkumar (Danville, Calif.), Samuel Chehab (San Jose, Calif.) and Ratnesh Saxena (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "One or more attendees joining a web conference are monitored. It is determined that one or more of the one or more attendees is an undesired attendee. In response to the determination, an action is caused to be performed."

The patent was filed on...