US Patent Issued to Palo Alto Networks on Aug. 4 for "Visual deep learning for inline phishing detection" (California, North Carolina Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,701,126, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to Palo Alto Networks Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Visual deep learning for inline phishing detection" was invented by Lucas Hu (San Francisco), Yu Zhang (Newark, Calif.), Jingwei Fan (Chapel Hill, N.C.) and Wei Wang (Milpitas, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for visual deep learning for inline phishing detection are disclosed. In some embodiments, a system/process/computer program product for visual deep learning for inline phishing detection includes extracting a logo from a screenshot of a web page; detecting phishing based on a match to at least one of a plurality of reference l...