US Patent Issued to Micro Focus on Dec. 2 for "Identification of variants of artificial intelligence generated malware" (Texas, Idaho Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,488,107, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to Micro Focus LLC (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Identification of variants of artificial intelligence generated malware" was invented by Michael A. Aday (Carrollton, Texas), Douglas Max Grover (Rigby, Idaho) and Michael F. Angelo (Houston).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Source code for a type of malware is received. For example, the source code may be source code from a type of computer virus. An Artificial Intelligence (AI) algorithm is identified. For example, the AI algorithm may be ChatGPT. The source code of the type of malware is run through the AI algorithm to produce mutated source code for the ty...