US Patent Issued to British Telecommunications on Jan. 13 for "Real-time malware propagation forecasting" (British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,526,309, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to British Telecommunications PLC (London).

"Real-time malware propagation forecasting" was invented by Xiao-Si Wang (London) and Stephanie Kiss (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 propagating through the set of computer systems including accessing a model of the set of computer systems, wherein each computer system is identified by the model as having an indication of a state of malware infection; simulating, over a plurality of time periods, a propagation of the malware from infected computer ...