ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,719,926, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to Walmart Apollo LLC (Bentonville, Ark.).

"Phishing detection of visually similar login pages" was invented by Jayson Lee Davidson (Rogers, Ark.), Dan Cheng (Catonsville, Md.), Connor Joseph Shride (Portland, Ore.) and Walter Nolen Scaife (Longmont, Colo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This application is directed to systems and methods for detecting phishing attempts in a user application. In some embodiments, a disclosed method includes extracting from an incoming message a uniform resource identifier (URI) for identifying a resource on a computer network, generating a screenshot image of the r...