US Patent Issued to NORTHROP GRUMMAN SYSTEMS on Feb. 18 for "Systems and methods for malware detection" (California Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,229,260, issued on Feb. 18, was assigned to NORTHROP GRUMMAN SYSTEMS Corp. (Falls Church, Va.).

"Systems and methods for malware detection" was invented by Carlos A. Villegas (Redondo Beach, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In some examples, an analyzer manager configured to select one of a program code analyzer, a static data analyzer, and an unused memory location analyzer for malware detection within memory of a system. The program code analyzer can be executed to evaluate instruction data for executing a computer program at a first set of memory locations within the memory for malware in response to being selected by the analyze...