ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,432,225, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to Palo Alto Networks Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).
"Inline malware detection" was invented by William Redington Hewlett II (Mountain View, Calif.), Suiqiang Deng (Fremont, Calif.), Sheng Yang (Santa Clara, Calif.) and Ho Yu Lam (Santa Clara, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Detection of malicious files is disclosed. A set comprising a plurality of sample classification models is received and stored. A determination is made that n-gram analysis should be performed on a sequence of received packets associated with a received file. Performing the n-gram analysis includes using a determined file...