US Patent Issued to BluVector on Oct. 14 for "System and method for automated machine-learning, zero-day malware detection" (Maryland, Virginia, Florida Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,443,710, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to BluVector Inc. (Philadelphia).

"System and method for automated machine-learning, zero-day malware detection" was invented by Scott Miserendino (Baltimore), Ryan Peters (Fairfax, Va.), Donald Steiner (McLean, Va.), Bhargav R. Avasarala (Arlington, Va.), Brock D. Bose (Alexandria, Va.) and John C. Day (Palm Bay, Fla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Improved systems and methods for automated machine-learning, zero-day malware detection. Embodiments include a system and method for detecting malware using multi-stage file-typing and, optionally pre-processing, with fall-through options. The system a...