ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,299,124, issued on May 13, was assigned to Capital One Services LLC (McLean, Va.).

"Deep learning based detection of malicious shell scripts" was invented by Farshid Marbouti (San Jose, Calif.), Sarvani Kare (Clarksville, Md.), Boshika Tara (Pleasanton, Calif.), Stephen Fletcher (Arlington, Va.) and Patrick Sofo (Arlington, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In some implementations, a system may receive a shell script associated with a computing device. The system may generate a character frequency feature vector based on the shell script. The system may input text of the shell script to a convolutional neural network (CNN) branch of a t...