ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,292,971, issued on May 6, was assigned to Sophos Ltd. (Abingdon, Great Britain).
"Cybersecurity system evaluation and configuration" was invented by Richard Edward Harang (Alexandria, Va.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Statistical properties of known malware distributions may be used to improve estimates of malware detection metrics such as a base rate of malicious events in a target environment or missed detections (also referred to as false negatives). In particular, numerous synthetic sample distributions may be generated based on the statistical properties of a base data set and/or additional observed data, and used to identify malwa...