ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,586,068, issued on March 24, was assigned to Walmart Apollo LLC (Bentonville, Ark.).

"Systems and methods for detecting email manipulation using machine learning" was invented by Weifeng Wang (Santa Clara, Calif.), Jingru Zhou (San Jose, Calif.), Wen Zhang (San Jose, Calif.), Uday B. Akella (San Carlos, Calif.), Kazuo Matsumoto (Santa Clara, Calif.) and Hui-Min Chen (Pleasanton, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for detecting email manipulation using machine learning are disclosed. In some embodiments, a disclosed method includes: receiving, from a computing device, an email assessment request regarding an email ...