The United States Patent and Trademark Office has issued Iconix’s thirteenth patent titled “Authenticating and confidence marking e-mail messages.”
The abstract for U.S. Patent 10,541,956, dated January 21, 2020, states: “Methods and systems for authenticating and confidence marking e-mail messages are described. One embodiment describes a method of authenticating an e-mail message. This method involves extracting a plurality of e-mail headers associated with the e-mail message, and identifying a sending edge mail transfer agent (MTA). The method then calls for determining if the sending edge MTA is authorized to send the e-mail message.”