ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,271,476, issued on April 8, was assigned to Halcyon Tech Inc. (Austin, Texas).
"Antiransomware using machine learning" was invented by Ryan Smith (Austin, Texas) and Jonathan Miller (Poway, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Data is received that comprises or characterizes an executable and dynamic linked library (DLL). Features are then extracted from the executable and DLL. The extracted features are input into at least one machine learning model to generate a suspiciousness score. The machine learning model can be trained to determine whether the executable file comprises ransomware. An execution chain of trust score for the execut...