US Patent Issued to PROOFPOINT on Sept. 15 for "Intelligent clustering systems and methods useful for domain protection" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,737,422, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to PROOFPOINT INC. (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

"Intelligent clustering systems and methods useful for domain protection" was invented by Hung-Jen Chang (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Gaurav Mitesh Dalal (Sunnyvale, Calif.) and Ali Mesdaq (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An intelligent clustering system has a dual-mode clustering engine for mass-processing and stream-processing. A tree data model is utilized to describe heterogenous data elements in an accurate and uniform way and to calculate a tree distance between each data element and a cluster representative. The clustering engine performs e...