US Patent Issued to Palo Alto Networks on Sept. 30 for "Specific file detection baked into machine learning pipelines" (California, Florida, Indiana Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,430,437, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to Palo Alto Networks Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Specific file detection baked into machine learning pipelines" was invented by William Redington Hewlett II (Mountain View, Calif.), Anirudh Mittal (Fremont, Calif.), Ashwin Kumar Dewan (Palm Harbor, Fla.) and Tyler Pals Halfpop (Carmel, Ind.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A set of features including a first feature and a second feature is received at a server. A subset of the set of features is determined for use in generating a model usable by a device to locally make a malware classification decision. The device has reduced computing resource...