US Patent Issued to Sophos on Jan. 13 for "Methods and apparatus for machine learning to generate a decision tree database to identify commands similar to a command of interest" (Kansas Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,526,289, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to Sophos Ltd. (Abingdon, Great Britain).

"Methods and apparatus for machine learning to generate a decision tree database to identify commands similar to a command of interest" was invented by Joshua Daniel Saxe (Wichita, Kan.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A potentially malicious command including a plurality of features is received. Additionally, a plurality of nodes included in a decision tree are traversed, based on the plurality of features, to identify a leaf node included in the plurality of nodes. The leaf node is associated with (1) a first set of similar commands, each similar command f...