US Patent Issued to Cisco Technology on Oct. 7 for "Suspicious filename detection using a deep learning neural network" (American, German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,437,067, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to Cisco Technology Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Suspicious filename detection using a deep learning neural network" was invented by Glory Emmanuel Avina (Brentwood, Calif.), Abhinav Mishra (San Francisco), Kumar Sharad (Dresden, Germany) and Namratha Sreekanta (Fremont, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein is a machine learning-based approach to detect suspiciously named processes. When malware executes on a networking device, such as a laptop or desktop computer, the malware may create a copy of itself, assign the copy a process name consisting of random characters, and store the co...