ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,580,929, issued on March 17, was assigned to CrowdStrike Inc. (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

"Techniques for assessing malware classification" was invented by Arnd Korn (Berlin), Calin-Bogdan Miron (Nottingham, Great Britain) and Marian Radu (Bucharest, Romania).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A sample file that is associated with malware and a first modification model of a plurality of modification models to alter the sample file are selected. The first modification model generates a modification configuration based on the sample file. The modification configuration identifies a modification to be performed on the sample file. The sample file and ...