US Patent Issued to McAfee on Aug. 25 for "Targeted clustering using meta-buckets" (California, Oregon, Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,717,879, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to McAfee LLC (San Jose, Calif.).

"Targeted clustering using meta-buckets" was invented by German Lancioni (San Jose, Calif.), Steve L. Grobman (Flower Mound, Texas) and Jonathan B. King (Hillsboro, Ore.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "There is disclosed a computer-implemented system and method of classifying a target sample, wherein the target sample is a computer object having a feature vector, the method comprising: creating n sorted containers, comprising sorting a universe of samples based on feature vector distances from the samples to n vantage points, wherein n is a positive integer; storin...