US Patent Issued to McAfee on Nov. 11 for "Detecting ransomware" (Oregon, California, Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,468,805, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to McAfee LLC (San Jose, Calif.).

"Detecting ransomware" was invented by Kunal Mehta (Hillsboro, Ore.), Sherin Mary Mathews (Santa Clara, Calif.), Carl D. Woodward (Santa Clara, Calif.), Celeste R. Fralick (Lubbock, Texas) and Jonathan B. King (Hillsboro, Ore.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "There is disclosed in one example a ransomware mitigation engine, including: a processor; a convolutional neural network configured to provide file type identification (FTI) services including: identifying an access operation of a file as a write to the file or newly creating the file; computing a byte correlat...