US Patent Issued to Gen Digital on July 21 for "Neural network detection of malicious activity" (Czech Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,688,286, issued on July 21, was assigned to Gen Digital Inc. (Tempe, Ariz.).

"Neural network detection of malicious activity" was invented by Petr Gronat (Prague).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of identifying malicious activity in a sequence of computer instructions includes providing the sequence of computer instructions into a recurrent neural network configured to provide an output based on both the current instruction being input and at least one prior instruction in the sequence, and evaluating the provided sequence of computer instructions in the recurrent neural network at multiple points within the sequence. An output is ...