US Patent Issued to Google on May 19 for "Detecting malware by modifying executable code" (Oklahoma Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,632,549, issued on May 19, was assigned to Google LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Detecting malware by modifying executable code" was invented by Joshua Aaron Mason (Oklahoma City).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for detecting malware by modifying executable code includes identifying executable code that includes branch instructions. The method includes determining whether any of the branch instructions of the executable code mask maliciousness of the executable code. The determining includes modifying first one or more of the branch instructions of the executable code, causing execution of the executable code with the modified first...