US Patent Issued to Sophos on Sept. 9 for "Attribute relevance tagging in malware recognition" (Argentinean, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,411,953, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to Sophos Ltd. (Abingdon, Great Britain).

"Attribute relevance tagging in malware recognition" was invented by Felipe Nicolas Ducau (Neuquen, Argentina) and Konstantin Berlin (Potomac, Md.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In general, in one aspect, a method for machine learning recognition of portable executable files as malware includes providing training data comprising features of portable executable files and descriptive information for the portable executable files, the descriptive information comprising a family or type of malware. The method may include training a model using the training da...