ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,505,215, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to Endor Labs Inc (Palo Alto, Calif.).

"Using artificial intelligence to generate test data to test malware scanner(s)" was invented by Henrik Plate (Valbonne, France) and Dimitrios Styliadis (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In some examples, a server injects malicious code into a legitimate software package to create an injected package. The server uses an artificial intelligence to extract a plurality of parts from the injected package and to mutate individual parts of the plurality of parts to create mutated parts. The server assembles the mutated parts to create a mutated malwa...