US Patent Issued to Proofpoint on July 28 for "Detecting random and/or algorithmically-generated character sequences in domain names" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,694,224, issued on July 28, was assigned to Proofpoint Inc. (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

"Detecting random and/or algorithmically-generated character sequences in domain names" was invented by Hung-Jen Chang (Freemont, Calif.), Gaurav Mitesh Dalal (Fremont, Calif.) and Ali Mesdaq (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects of the disclosure relate to detecting random and/or algorithmically-generated character sequences in domain names. A computing platform may train a machine learning model based on a set of semantically-meaningful words. Subsequently, the computing platform may receive a seed string and a set of domains to be analy...