US Patent Issued to OPEN TEXT on Oct. 7 for "Automatic threat detection of executable files based on static data analysis" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,437,068, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to OPEN TEXT INC. (Menlo Park, Calif.).

"Automatic threat detection of executable files based on static data analysis" was invented by Mauritius Schmidtler (Escondido, Calif.), Gaurav Dalal (San Jose, Calif.) and Reza Yoosoofmiya (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects of the present disclosure relate to threat detection of executable files. A plurality of static data points may be extracted from an executable file without decrypting or unpacking the executable file. The executable file may then be analyzed without decrypting or unpacking the executable file. Analysis of the executable fil...