ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,255,905, issued on March 18, was assigned to CrowdStrike Inc. (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

"Machine learning malware classifications using behavioral artifacts" was invented by Vitaly Zaytsev (Beaverton, Ore.), Brett Meyer (Alpharetta, Ga.) and Joel Robert Spurlock (Portland, Ore.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques and systems for a security service system configured with a sensor component including a machine learning (ML) malware classifier to perform behavioral detection on host devices. The security service system may deploy a sensor component to monitor behavioral events on a host device. The sensor component may generate events dat...