ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,443,714, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to Quantum Star Technologies Inc. (Coeur d'Alene, Idaho).

"Coordinate-system-based data protection techniques" was invented by Garrett Thomas Oetken (Post Falls, Idaho).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques and architectures for representing data with one or more n-dimensional representations and/or using one or more models to identify malware are described herein. For example, the techniques and architectures may determine one or more coordinates for one or more points based on one or more sets of bits in the data and generate an n-dimensional representation for the data based on the one or mo...