ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,401,663, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to Raytheon Co. (Arlington, Va.).
"Stack-HAC for machine learning based botnet detection" was invented by Nandi O. Leslie (Silver Spring, Md.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Discussed herein are devices, systems, and methods for detecting anomalous or malicious processes based on a network session. A method includes receiving a network session, implementing a stacked hierarchical agglomerative clustering (HAC) algorithm that operates multiple HAC algorithms to identify respective clusters to which the network session maps, each HAC algorithm of the StackHAC algorithm operates using a different link...