ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,645,796, issued on June 2, was assigned to CrowdStrike Inc. (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

"Using artificial intelligence models with intermediate representations to analyze malicious files" was invented by Andrew Southgate (Cambridge, Great Britain) and Paul Sumedrea (Bucharest, Romania).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides an approach of analyzing multiple modalities of a file to produce multiple analysis tokens. Each one of the analysis tokens corresponds to a respective modality of the file. The approach provides the multiple analysis tokens to an artificial intelligence model, which is trained to produce an intermediat...