ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,670,256, issued on June 30, was assigned to Google LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Identify malicious software" was invented by Richard Cannings (Santa Cruz, Calif.), Sai Deep Tetali (Mountain View, Calif.), Mo Yu (Mountain View, Calif.) and Salvador Mandujano (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for identifying malicious software includes receiving and executing a software application, identifying a plurality of uniform resource identifiers the software application interacts with during execution of the software application, and generating a vector representation for the software application using a feed-forward neura...