ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,566,854, issued on March 3, was assigned to Foundation of Soongsil University-Industry Cooperation (Seoul, South Korea).

"Method for detecting mobile malicious application based on implementation features, recording medium, and device for performing the method" was invented by Jeong Hyun Yi (Seoul, South Korea), Hae Hyun Cho (Seoul, South Korea), Sun Jun Lee (Seoul, South Korea) and Young Hoon Ban (Incheon, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for detecting a mobile malicious application is disclosed. The method includes decompiling a labeled application to remove preset information; extracting abstract syntax tree (AST) t...