ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,505,207, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to Acronis International GmbH (Schaffhausen, Switzerland).

"AI assisted generation of rules for malware detection with transformer attention mechanism" was invented by Philipp Gysel (Bern, Switzerland), Candid Wuest (Bassersdorf, Switzerland), Dinil Mon Divakaran (Singapore), Kenneth Nwafor (Singapore), Serg Bell (Costa del Sol, Singapore) and Stanislav Protasov (Singapore).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods implement artificial intelligence to automatically generate malware detection rules. In a first phase, an AI model is trained on large amounts of data, so the AI model can learn...