ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,621,323, issued on May 5, was assigned to Salesforce Inc. (San Francisco).

"Content-oblivious fraudulent email detection system" was invented by Xiao Zhang (Sammamish, Wash.), Robin Stuart (Pacifica, Wash.) and John Seymour (Bothell, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system supporting one or more machine learning models may receive, via a cloud-based platform that supports a multi-tenant system, metadata associated with a set of electronic communication messages for a tenant of the multi-tenant system. The system may normalize the metadata by extracting fields of the metadata into a format readable by the machine learning model to ide...