ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,699,773, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to BlackBerry Ltd. (Waterloo, Canada).
"Method and apparatus for clone search" was invented by Zhizhou Song (Kingston, Canada), Honghui Ding (Kingston, Canada), Yuan Tian (Kingston, Canada), Li Tao Li (Toronto) and Weihan Ou (Vancouver, Canada).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "There is provided a method and apparatus for identifying malicious code. The method uses machine learning to compare a new code segment to known code segments of malicious code. Code segments are converted to vectors and the cosine similarity of two vectors is used to identify clones. Techniques to train a neural network for hand...