ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,475,222, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to Crowdstrike Inc. (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

"Method and apparatus for mapping similarity spaces" was invented by Michael Slawinski (Rancho Santa Margarita, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for selecting a region of a similarity space in which to locate a file. Numerous files are received, and feature vectors for each of the received files is created, each feature vector comprising values representing corresponding features for the file. A respective similarity space is created for each of the respective number of feature vectors, each respective similarity space comprising several regio...