US Patent Issued to International Business Machines on March 3 for "Detecting and assessing evidence of malware intrusion" (California, New Jersey, New York, Connecticut Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,566,851, issued on March 3, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Detecting and assessing evidence of malware intrusion" was invented by Arielle Tovah Orazio (Wood-Ridge, N.J.), Matthias Seul (Pleasant Hill, Calif.), Lloyd Wellington Mascarenhas (White Plains, N.Y.) and Christopher Pepin (New Fairfield, Conn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Approaches presented herein enable detecting and assessing evidence of malware intrusion. More specifically, scans of a system are performed, where the scans detect evidence of malware intrusion, and each of the scans generates a respective result. A severity score is a...