ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,566,742, issued on March 3, was assigned to CrowdStrike Inc. (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

"Applications of machine learning models to a binary search engine based on an inverted index of byte sequences" was invented by Horea Razvan Coroiu (Cluj-Napoca, Romania), Daniel Radu (Bucharest, Romania) and Marian Radu (Bucharest, Romania).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for searching an inverted index associating byte sequences of a fixed length and files that contain those byte sequences are described herein. Byte sequences comprising a search query are determined and searched in the inverted index. In some examples, training data for training...