ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,563,049, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to Acronis International GmbH (Schaffhausen, Switzerland).

"Systems and methods for A.I.-based malware analysis on offline endpoints in a network" was invented by Nikolay Grebennikov (Moscow), Candid Wuest (Bassersdorf, Switzerland), Serguei Beloussov (Costa del Sol, Singapore) and Stanislav Protasov (Singapore).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein are systems and method for optimizing artificial intelligence (A.I)-based malware analysis on offline endpoints in a network. In one aspect, a method includes identifying a file that has not been executed on an endpoint system and scanning the...