US Patent Issued to CrowdStrike on Dec. 23 for "Techniques for detecting file similarity" (California, Maryland Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,505,071, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to CrowdStrike Inc. (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

"Techniques for detecting file similarity" was invented by Jeffrey Capone (Los Gatos, Calif.), Joshua Jones (Livermore, Calif.), Artsiom Tsai (Los Altos Hills, Calif.) and Naeem Fanaeian (Damascus, Md.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-implemented method of detecting similarity between a first file and a plurality of second files, the method includes generating a first vector corresponding to the first file and a plurality of second vectors each corresponding to one of the plurality of second files; determining that the first file is similar to at l...