US Patent Issued to Trend Micro on March 18 for "Malware families identification based upon hierarchical clustering" (Taiwanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,254,089, issued on March 18, was assigned to Trend Micro Inc. (Tokyo).

"Malware families identification based upon hierarchical clustering" was invented by Yin-Ming Chang (Taipei, Taiwan), Hsing-Yun Chen (Taipei, Taiwan), Hsin-Wen Kung (Taipei, Taiwan), Li-Chun Sung (Taipei, Taiwan) and Si-Wei Wang (Taipei, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Behavior report generation monitors the behavior of unknown sample files executing in a sandbox. Behaviors are encoded and feature vectors created based upon a q-gram for each sample. Prototypes extraction includes extracting prototypes from the training set of feature vectors using a clustering ...