US Patent Issued to Sophos on Oct. 7 for "Methods and apparatus for management of a machine-learning model to adapt to changes in landscape of potentially malicious artifacts" (British, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,437,239, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to Sophos Ltd. (Abingdon, Great Britain).

"Methods and apparatus for management of a machine-learning model to adapt to changes in landscape of potentially malicious artifacts" was invented by Richard Harang (Alexandria, Va.) and Felipe Ducau (Oxford, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus can include a memory and a processor. The processor can be configured to train a machine-learning (ML) model to output (1) an identification of whether an artifact is malicious and (2) a confidence value associated with the identification of whether the artifact is malicious. The processor can f...