US Patent Issued to International Business Machines on Sept. 30 for "Detection of malicious encryption based on machine learning" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,432,229, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Detection of malicious encryption based on machine learning" was invented by Angelo Danducci II (Austin, Texas), Andrew Stephen Cassidy (Austin, Texas), Jean Elvira Schunck (Travis, Texas) and Harshan Kumar Yennamaneni (Austin, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-implemented method, computer program product, and computer system to classify executing processes as malicious based on opcode data. A processor to retrieves live opcode data corresponding to one or more processors executing a process. A processor generates a maliciou...