ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,314,390, issued on May 27, was assigned to Check Point Software Technologies Ltd. (Tel Aviv, Israel).

"Malicious VBA detection using graph representation" was invented by Dor Livne (Tel Aviv, Israel), Avner Duchovni (Herzeliya, Israel), Erez Israel (Tel Aviv, Israel), Natan Katz (Tel Aviv, Israel) and Michael Abramzon (Ashkelon, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and system are provided for detecting malicious code using graph neural networks. A call graph is created from the computer code by identifying functions in the computer code and vectorizing the identified functions using a stream of application programming interface...