US Patent Issued to Sophos on June 24 for "Methods and apparatus for detection of malicious documents using machine learning" (Kansas, Virginia, Colorado Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,339,962, issued on June 24, was assigned to Sophos Ltd. (Abingdon, Great Britain).

"Methods and apparatus for detection of malicious documents using machine learning" was invented by Joshua Daniel Saxe (Wichita, Kan.), Ethan M. Rudd (Colorado Springs, Colo.) and Richard Harang (Alexandria, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus for detecting malicious files includes a memory and a processor communicatively coupled to the memory. The processor receives multiple potentially malicious files. A first potentially malicious file has a first file format, and a second potentially malicious file has a second file format different than th...