ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,353,551, issued on July 8, was assigned to Halcyon Tech Inc. (Austin, Texas).
"Ransomware behavioral kernel model" was invented by Clark Lindsey (Loudon, Tenn.) and Jonathan Miller (Poway, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Time series behavioral data derived from operating system events on a monitored computing device is monitored at a kernel level. Based on this monitoring, a feature vector is populated or updated with features indicative of ransomware. These features are extracted or otherwise derived from the time series behavioral data. The feature vector can be input into a machine learning model (e.g., a modified gated recurrent...