US Patent Issued to GEN DIGITAL on Dec. 2 for "Protecting against malicious application encounters on mobile devices" (French, Greek Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,488,103, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to GEN DIGITAL INC. (Tempe, Ariz.).

"Protecting against malicious application encounters on mobile devices" was invented by Savino Dambra (Nice, France), Platon Kotzias (Athens, Greece) and Leylya Yumer (Antibes, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems for protecting mobile devices from malicious application encounters are disclosed. In one embodiment, a method may include obtaining application data and feature data from a plurality of mobile devices and identifying one or more malicious applications installed thereon. Based on the application data, a user profile for each mobile d...