US Patent Issued to McAfee on Oct. 14 for "Methods and apparatus to classify samples as clean or malicious using low level Markov transition matrices" (California, Oregon Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,443,712, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to McAfee LLC (San Jose, Calif.).

"Methods and apparatus to classify samples as clean or malicious using low level Markov transition matrices" was invented by German Lancioni (San Jose, Calif.), Carl Woodward (Santa Clara, Calif.) and Jonathan Edwards (Portland, Ore.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, apparatus, systems, and articles of manufacture are disclosed to classify a sample as clean or malicious. An example apparatus includes instruction identifies circuitry to convert a sample into a sequence of instructions, abstract language circuitry to transform the sequence of instructions into...