US Patent Issued to Acronis International on March 24 for "Malicious activity detection by modeling end-point events as sequences" (Singaporean, Swiss Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,585,772, issued on March 24, was assigned to Acronis International GmbH (Schaffhausen, Switzerland).

"Malicious activity detection by modeling end-point events as sequences" was invented by Candid Wuest (Bassersdorf, Switzerland), Philipp Gysel (Bern, Switzerland), Dinil Mon Divakaran (Singapore), Andrey Ustyuzhanin (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 for detecting malicious activity on an endpoint, the endpoint having executing processes, including tracking behavior of executing processes, generating a provenan...