US Patent Issued to Proofpoint on June 23 for "Detecting and protecting against cybersecurity attacks using unprintable tracking characters" (California Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,664,269, issued on June 23, was assigned to Proofpoint Inc. (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

"Detecting and protecting against cybersecurity attacks using unprintable tracking characters" was invented by Thomas Lee (Kensington, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects of the disclosure relate to detecting and protecting against cybersecurity attacks using unprintable tracking characters. A computing platform may receive a character-limited message sent to a user device. Subsequently, the computing platform may detect that the character-limited message sent to the user device includes suspicious content. Then, the computing platform may generate...