US Patent Issued to Fortinet on May 13 for "Automatic detection of malware families and variants without the presence of malware files based on structure presentation" (Canadian Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,299,123, issued on May 13, was assigned to Fortinet Inc. (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

"Automatic detection of malware families and variants without the presence of malware files based on structure presentation" was invented by Samer Moein (Burnaby, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A string sample is received from a file in real-time and the string sample is converted to a Tetra code and used to search a database of Tetra code samples, organized by family and then by variant. It is determined whether the real-time Tetra code fits any family mask, and if not a new family mask is created. It is also determined whether real-time Tetra code fits...