ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,689,655, issued on July 21, was assigned to Zscaler Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Systems and methods for generating lookalike Uniform Resource Locators (URLs) based on penalty-based genetic algorithms" was invented by Hila Paz Herszfang (Tel Aviv, Israel), Dani Rubin (Tel Aviv, Israel), Eden Meyuhas (Tel Aviv, Israel), Roi Inbar (Inbar, 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; generating a first generation of lookalike domains based on the original target domain and a plural...