US Patent Issued to Palo Alto Networks on Feb. 3 for "Malware detection for documents using knowledge distillation assisted learning" (California, New Mexico Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,541,591, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to Palo Alto Networks Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Malware detection for documents using knowledge distillation assisted learning" was invented by Min Du (Santa Clara, Calif.), Curtis Leland Carmony (Albuquerque, N.M.) and Wenjun Hu (Santa Clara, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The detection of malicious documents using knowledge distillation assisted learning is disclosed. A document is received for maliciousness determination. A likelihood that the received document represents a threat is determined. The determination is made, at least in part, using a raw bytes model that was trained, at le...