US Patent Issued to Proofpoint on Sept. 29 for "Dynamically controlling access to linked content in electronic communications" (California, Washington, Nevada Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,748,870, issued on Sept. 29, was assigned to Proofpoint Inc. (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

"Dynamically controlling access to linked content in electronic communications" was invented by Conor Brian Hayes (Monte Sereno, Calif.), Michael Edward Jones (Fallbrook, Calif.), Alina V. Khayms (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Kenny Lee (Seattle), David Jonathan Melnick (Los Angeles) and Adrian Knox Roston (Las Vegas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects of the disclosure relate to dynamically controlling access to linked content in electronic communications. A computing platform may receive, from a user computing device, a request for a uniform resource locator as...