US Patent Issued to Trend Micro on March 24 for "Multi-model detection of malicious URL using its network" (Philippine Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,587,565, issued on March 24, was assigned to Trend Micro Inc. (Tokyo).

"Multi-model detection of malicious URL using its network" was invented by Paul Miguel Babon (Mandaluyong, Philippines).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A URL is input into a virtual browser of a crawler which requests that URL and all of its resource URLs in order to form a network graph. Network features are extracted. An identity stage uses an identity model based upon lexical and host features to determine if the input URL and resource URLs are malicious or benign. A similarity stage uses a similarity model and similarity functions to produce a similarity score betw...