US Patent Issued to Sophos on Aug. 5 for "Rapid development of malicious content detectors" (American, Australian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,381,893, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to Sophos Ltd. (Abingdon, Great Britain).

"Rapid development of malicious content detectors" was invented by Younghoo Lee (Asquith, Australia) and Joshua Daniel Saxe (Wichita, Kan.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems are described for developing a malicious content detector to identify new malicious text content, such as phishing messages, malicious documents, and/or malicious web content. A computing device is used to generate input data which contains an instruction, examples of content, and content to be analyzed. The examples include malicious and benign content samples, designed ...