US Patent Issued to Target Brands on Feb. 25 for "Systems and methods for generating malware family detection rules" (Minnesota Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,235,956, issued on Feb. 25, was assigned to Target Brands Inc. (Minneapolis).

"Systems and methods for generating malware family detection rules" was invented by Nicholas Taylor (Minneapolis).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed are techniques for identifying unique byte sequences for malware families. A method can include receiving a collection of malware signature samples, grouping the samples in the collection by malware family, and for each family: identifying unique byte sequences in the samples and a number of instances of the unique byte sequences across the samples, adding the identified unique byte sequences to a dictionary f...