US Patent Issued to Micro Focus on Oct. 7 for "Identification of malicious programs using thread patterns and related data" (Texas, Idaho Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,437,071, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to Micro Focus LLC (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Identification of malicious programs using thread patterns and related data" was invented by Douglas Max Grover (Rigby, Idaho), Michael F. Angelo (Houston) and Michael A. Aday (Carrollton, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A current thread pattern is identified. For example, a thread pattern of a running software application is identified. Current resource information associated with the current thread pattern is identified. For example, the current resource information may include disk usage, packets sent, ports used, accounts created, etc. The current ...