US Patent Issued to Morgan Stanley Services Group on Jan. 27 for "Systems and methods for malware detection in portable executable files" (Singaporean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,536,281, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to Morgan Stanley Services Group Inc. (New York).

"Systems and methods for malware detection in portable executable files" was invented by Chenggang Tong (Singapore), Fan Liu (Singapore) and Yingfei Wang (Singapore).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for detecting malware in portable executable (PE) files is provided. A PE file can be received by a server, the PE file can be decompiled into p-code, and one or more predetermined variables can be extracted from the p-code, where the one or more predetermined variables are potentially malicious. The one or more predetermined variables ...