US Patent Issued to ZIXCORP SYSTEMS on Oct. 20 for "System and method for detecting potentially harmful data" (Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,771,671, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to ZIXCORP SYSTEMS INC. (Dallas).

"System and method for detecting potentially harmful data" was invented by Jonathan Daniel Durbin (Milan, Mich.) and Christopher Dylan Bruch Foster (Ann Arbor, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method includes receiving electronic data, extracting a first identifier from the electronic data, extracting first attributes from the electronic data, and searching a database for identifiers that match the first identifier to determine a number of matching identifiers. The method also includes determining that the number of matching identifiers exceeds a first thres...