US Patent Issued to Index Engines on July 14 for "Anomalous file detection" (New Jersey Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,682,054, issued on July 14, was assigned to Index Engines Inc. (Holmdel, N.J.).

"Anomalous file detection" was invented by Ben Henry McMillan Jr. (Middletown, N.J.) and Jairo Orlando Esteban (Freehold, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are provided for detecting an anomalous file in a dataset of files utilizing a set of computer resources executing instructions to establish computer processes. The computer processes include, for each file in the dataset, evaluating the file to produce a file profile, using the file profile to develop a score for the file as to its specific type, and processing the score in a machine...