US Patent Issued to Cisco Technology on July 21 for "Capturing the behavioral signature of polymorphic malware using generative AI" (Pennsylvania, California, Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,689,632, issued on July 21, was assigned to Cisco Technology Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Capturing the behavioral signature of polymorphic malware using generative AI" was invented by Amanda L. Holst (Campbell, Calif.), Eugenia Kim (Allentown, Pa.) and Myungjin Lee (Bellevue, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In one implementation, a device captures behavioral snapshots of a piece of executable code. The device generates a prompt based on the behavioral snapshots. The device generates a malware signature for the piece of executable code in part by inputting the prompt into a generative model. The device provides the malware signature fo...