US Patent Issued to BlackBerry on Aug. 12 for "System and method for machine learning based malware detection" (Canadian, Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,388,853, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to BlackBerry Ltd. (Waterloo, Canada).

"System and method for machine learning based malware detection" was invented by Laura Micah Graves (Waterloo, Canada) and Anandadip Mandal (Noida, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method comprises obtaining a training set of network data that includes benign network data and malware network data; engaging a feature extraction engine to generate a set of dyads for each source-destination pair in the training set of network data; and training, using the set of dyads, a machine learning engine to differentiate between the benign network data and the malwa...