US Patent Issued to Palo Alto Networks on March 25 for "Combination rule mining for malware signature generation" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,261,876, issued on March 25, was assigned to Palo Alto Networks Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Combination rule mining for malware signature generation" was invented by Min Du (Santa Clara, Calif.), Wenjun Hu (Santa Clara, Calif.) and William Redington Hewlett II (Mountain View, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Malware signature generation through combination rule mining is disclosed. A set of properties associated, collectively, with a plurality of data samples is received. A first data sample has a first set of properties and a second data sample has a second set of properties. A combination signature comprising at least a first pr...