US12361127B1 — Computer-based systems configured for malware detection and methods of use thereof
Named inventor on US12361127B1 — malware detection by monitoring browser execution and visual changes on a page. Granted 15 July 2025. Assignee on the record: Go Daddy Operating Co LLC.
I am the named inventor on US12361127B1, Computer-based systems configured for malware detection and methods of use thereof, granted 15 July 2025. The assignee on the record is Go Daddy Operating Co LLC. Inventorship is not the same as personal ownership or a license to commercialize the patent.
What the patent is about
Web malware often arrives through a page that runs scripts in the browser. Signature work alone can lag when new scripts appear every day. This patent describes a controlled way to load a page, watch what scripts do, and notice when the page’s HTML elements change visually after that execution.
Method in plain terms
From the public abstract and claims, the approach includes:
- Emulating a browser with a controller so a page can run without harming the host
- Injecting a monitoring program into the loaded page
- Capturing a visual representation of an HTML element before and after embedded script runs
- Comparing those representations to detect a visual change
- Linking that change to the script execution and taking a remedial action related to the page
Embodiments also describe comparing the HTML that renders those visuals, and using a trained model among the ways to detect change — including side-by-side image review.
Record details
- Number: US12361127B1
- Inventor: Kaushal Bhavsar
- Assignee (record): Go Daddy Operating Co LLC
- Grant date: 15 July 2025
- Application: US18/966,866 (filed 3 December 2024)
- Status: Active (per Google Patents)
Limits
This page summarizes the public patent record. It is not a claim of measured detection superiority, product availability, or that every embodiment is deployed in production. For the full text, see the Google Patents record.