US Patent Issued to Palo Alto Networks on May 27 for "Detecting repackaged applications based on file format fingerprints" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,316,656, issued on May 27, was assigned to Palo Alto Networks Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Detecting repackaged applications based on file format fingerprints" was invented by Zihang Xiao (Santa Clara, Calif.) and Zhi Xu (Cupertino, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A set of repackaging fingerprints generated independently of a particular original application is received. The set of repackaging fingerprints comprises a plurality of predetermined indicators of build-related structure that is independent of the particular original application's code structure. A mobile application is received. The received mobile application is analyze...