US Patent Issued to Crowdstrike on Dec. 16 for "Method and apparatus for malicious file extension detection" (Romanian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,500,902, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to Crowdstrike Inc. (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

"Method and apparatus for malicious file extension detection" was invented by Mihaela Gaman (Bucharest, Romania), Marian Radu (Bucharest, Romania) and Joel Robert Spurlock (Portland, Ore.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A feature vector is created that comprises a plurality of values, each representing a corresponding portion of a filename extension for a digital file. During an inference workflow of a neural network model, an embedding vector is created that represents, in a meaningful way, the feature vector for the filename extension. A class label predic...