ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,580,958, issued on March 17, was assigned to Slash Next Inc. (Pleasanton, Calif.).

"Methods and systems for identifying phishing attacks" was invented by Atif Mushtaq (San Ramon, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided are systems, software, and methods for phishing analysis and detection. The provided systems, software, and methods may comprise interfaces configured to capture and scan network session activity in real-time to detect a phishing attack using a set of trained machine learning classifiers, detect a phishing attach, classify the attack into one or more phishing classes, block the phishing attack and provide a safe pr...