US Patent Issued to Invincea on July 22 for "Methods and apparatus for machine learning based malware detection" (Maryland, Kansas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,367,283, issued on July 22, was assigned to Invincea Inc. (Burlington, Mass.).

"Methods and apparatus for machine learning based malware detection" was invented by Joshua Daniel Saxe (Wichita, Kan.) and Konstantin Berlin (Potomac, Md.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Apparatus and methods describe herein, for example, a process that can include receiving a potentially malicious file, and dividing the potentially malicious file into a set of byte windows. The process can include calculating at least one attribute associated with each byte window from the set of byte windows for the potentially malicious file. In such an instance, the at lea...