US Patent Issued to Zscaler on Dec. 2 for "Phishing detection of uncategorized URLs using heuristics and scanning" (California, Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,488,058, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to Zscaler Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Phishing detection of uncategorized URLs using heuristics and scanning" was invented by Deepen Desai (San Ramon, Calif.) and Zhenxiang Wang (Kenmore, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods include obtaining a Uniform Resource Locator (URL) for a site on the Internet; analyzing the URL with a Machine Learning (ML) model to determine whether or not the site is suspicious for phishing; responsive to the URL being suspicious for phishing, loading the site to determine whether or not an associated brand of the site is legitimate or not; and, responsi...