US Patent Issued to Cylance on Sept. 1 for "Malware process blocking technique" (Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,724,874, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to Cylance Inc. (Plano, Texas).

"Malware process blocking technique" was invented by Shiladitya Sircar (Ottawa) and Irene Melgarejo Lermas (Waterloo, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "It is proposed a method for stopping or letting a process associated with an on-going event on a device by using a graph representation of the process, a prediction of the actions of the process to be performed on resources of the device by using a first trained model that outputs a predicted graph representation of the process, and a second trained model that delivers a score representative of the dangerousness ...