ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,367,284, issued on July 22, was assigned to Cybereason Inc. (Boston).

"Systems and methods for determining measurements of similarity between various types of data" was invented by Yonatan Perry (Neve Yarak, Israel), Assaf Ben-David (Tel Aviv, Israel) and Uri Sternfeld (Tel Aviv, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are provided to measure the similarity between a first and second data sample. The method can include creating a plurality of k-mers from the first data sample, each k-mer having a first length; generating a first vector from the plurality of k-mers by processing the plurality of k-mers with a plurality o...