ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,314,392, issued on May 27, was assigned to Bitdefender IPR Management Ltd. (Nicosia, Cyprus).

"Stacked malware detector for mobile platforms" was invented by Tudor Stefan (Deva, Romania).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Described systems and methods protect electronic devices such as smartphones and IoT devices against malicious software. In some embodiments, a malware detector comprises a stack/cascade of feature processors configured to determine a set of derived feature values according to primary features characterizing software executing on the respective device, and further comprises a synthesizer module configured to determine whethe...