US Patent Issued to Palo Alto Networks on Oct. 21 for "Deep learning for malicious image file detection" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,452,297, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to Palo Alto Networks Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Deep learning for malicious image file detection" was invented by Min Du (Santa Clara, Calif.), Yijie Sui (San Jose, Calif.), William Redington Hewlett II (Mountain View, Calif.) and Wenjun Hu (Santa Clara, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for using deep learning to identify malicious image files are disclosed. A plurality of sections of a first image are received. The received sections are used to determine a likelihood that the first image is malicious. The determination is made, at least in part, using a model trained using a se...