ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,462,027, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to Bitdefender IPR Management Ltd. (Nicosia, Cyprus).
"Robust feature selection for computer security applications" was invented by Stefan Smeu (Bacau, Romania), Elena Burceanu (Buchare, Romania) and Emanuela Haller (Buchare, Romania).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A diverse collection of data samples harvested for computer security applications is divided into a plurality of training corpora according to criteria such as an identity of the data source, among others. An initial set of features for characterizing the collected data samples is reduced to an optimal subset. For each candidate feature, a...