US Patent Issued to Acronis International on Jan. 20 for "Behavior analysis based on finite-state machine for malware detection" (Singaporean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,530,454, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to Acronis International GmbH (Schaffhausen, Switzerland).

"Behavior analysis based on finite-state machine for malware detection" was invented by Alexey Malanov (Singapore), Serguei Beloussov (Singapore) and Stanislav Protasov (Singapore).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method are disclosed for identifying malicious activity on a target device based on behavior analysis of the target device. The system includes a behavioral analyzer run on a virtual machine connected to the target device. The virtual machine collects system events and parameters from the target device and run a script,...