ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,445,459, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to Zscaler Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Detecting malicious mobile applications using machine learning in a cloud-based system" was invented by Rohit Goyal (Mohali, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for detecting malicious mobile applications using machine learning in a cloud-based system utilize a traffic forwarding technique and a cloud-based Machine Learning (ML) model to assess the security of apps installed on a user device. This architecture enables the cloud-based system to have visibility of user devices, train the ML model in real-time with a vast amount of mobile app ...