US Patent Issued to Target Brands on May 12 for "Performing automated digital investigations of phishing attempts" (Minnesota Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,625,956, issued on May 12, was assigned to Target Brands Inc. (Minneapolis).

"Performing automated digital investigations of phishing attempts" was invented by Eric Robert Brandel (Minnetonka, Minn.) and Daniel Christopher Jay Flettre (Roseville, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In some implementations, a method is provided for performing automated digital investigations of phishing attempts. Source identification data is received for a potential source of phishing attempts, and is stored at a data repository. According to a monitoring frequency for the potential source of phishing attempts, monitoring operations are periodically perf...