US Patent Issued to Google on March 4 for "Script classification on computing platform" (Washington, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,242,605, issued on March 4, was assigned to Google LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Script classification on computing platform" was invented by Merrielle Therese Spain (Kirkland, Wash.), Timothy Dylan Peacock (San Francisco) and John Edward Davis (Kirkland, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects of the disclosure are directed to a system for classifying software as malicious or benign based on predicting the effect the software has on the platform before the software is actually deployed. A system as described herein can operate in close to real-time to receive, isolate, and classify software as benign or malicious. Aspects of the di...