ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,436,920, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to ATOMBEAM TECHNOLOGIES INC. (Moraga, Calif.).

"System and method for file type identification using machine learning" was invented by Joshua Cooper (Columbia, S.C.), Aliasghar Riahi (Orinda, Calif.), Mojgan Haddad (Orinda, Calif.), Ryan Kourosh Riahi (Orinda, Calif.), Razmin Riahi (Orinda, Calif.) and Charles Yeomans (Orinda, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method for file type identification involving extraction of a file-print of a file, the file-print being a unique or practically-unique representation of statistical characteristics associated with the distribution of bits in...