US Patent Issued to British Telecomunications on March 31 for "Methods and systems for securing computer systems or networks against suspect binary files" (British Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,591,675, issued on March 31, was assigned to British Telecomunications PLC (London).

"Methods and systems for securing computer systems or networks against suspect binary files" was invented by Fadi El-Moussa (London).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-implemented method of automatically securing a computer system or network against a suspect binary file (SBF) by, in response to detection of the SBF, initiating an automatic defence strategy comprising an action known to mitigate a known threat posed by a closest known malicious binary file (KMBF). The method further includes identifying the closest KMBF by comparing an SBF applica...