US Patent Issued to Netskope on Sept. 30 for "Detection of malicious code that is obfuscated within a document file" (American, Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,430,429, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to Netskope Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Detection of malicious code that is obfuscated within a document file" was invented by Benjamin Chang (Fremont, Calif.) and Ghanashyam Satpathy (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The technology disclosed relates to cybersecurity attacks and cloud-based security, and specifically to the detection of malicious code that is obfuscated within document files. Such malicious code can be delivered in the form of malicious macros and/or malicious OLE objects stored within document files. The technology disclosed detects obfuscated and malicious code...