US Patent Issued to Proofpoint on Oct. 6 for "Detecting and preventing transmission of spam messages using modified source numbers" (California Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,756,689, issued on Oct. 6, was assigned to Proofpoint Inc. (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

"Detecting and preventing transmission of spam messages using modified source numbers" 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 preventing transmission of spam messages using modified source numbers. A computing platform may detect that a first message, sent to a recipient device from a sender device, includes suspicious content. Subsequently, the computing platform may receive, from the recipient device, user interaction information indicating that a user of the recipient d...