ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,511,386, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to British Telecommunications PLC (London).
"Malware propagation forecasting" was invented by Xiao-Si Wang (London) and Jessica Welding (London).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A malware protection method to protect at least a subset of a set of computer systems from a malware includes accessing a model of the set of computer systems, the model identifying interacting pairs of the computer systems in the set based on interactions corresponding to previous communication occurring between the computer systems in the pair; simulating, over a plurality of time periods, a propagation of the malware origi...