US Patent Issued to British Telecommunications on Dec. 16 for "Malware protection based on final infection size" (British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,499,218, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to British Telecommunications PLC (London).

"Malware protection based on final infection size" was invented by Xiao-Si Wang (London) and Jessica Welding (London).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer implemented malware protection method to protect at least a subset of computer systems in a population of network-connected computer systems, including determining a distribution of predicted final infection size, each predicted final infection size being determined by a forecasting simulation of malware propagation from an originating system in the population; determining a plurality of ranges of ...