US Patent Issued to GOOGLE on April 14 for "Cyber-threat analyses using machine learning and prior observations" (North Carolina, Virginia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,603,904, issued on April 14, was assigned to GOOGLE LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Cyber-threat analyses using machine learning and prior observations" was invented by Scott Eric Coull (Cary, N.C.) and Jeffrey Thomas Johns (Leesburg, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A cyber-security analysis method uses machine learning (ML) technology to classify cyber-threat indicators, for example, as malicious or benign, by generating a threat score. The method includes receiving, at a compute device, a cyber-threat indicator (IUE) and associated verdicts from a set of sources. Augmenting the verdicts associated with the IUE with verdicts associate...