ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,596,761, issued on April 7, was assigned to Zscaler Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Systems and methods for generating and utilizing lookalike uniform resource locators (URLs)" was invented by Hila Paz Herszfang (Tel Aviv, Israel), Dani Rubin (Tel Aviv, Israel), Eden Meyuhas (Tel Aviv, Israel), Roi Inbar (Tel Aviv, Israel) and Samir Dabit (Tel Aviv, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for generating and utilizing lookalike Uniform Resource Locators (URLs) include receiving an original target domain, the original target domain being associated with an enterprise; generating a plurality of lookalike domains via a genetic al...