US Patent Issued to McAfee on May 5 for "Methods and apparatus for malware classification through convolutional neural networks using raw bytes" (Oregon, Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,619,721, issued on May 5, was assigned to McAfee LLC (San Jose, Calif.).

"Methods and apparatus for malware classification through convolutional neural networks using raw bytes" was invented by Yonghong Huang (Hillsboro, Ore.), Steven Grobman (Plano, Texas), Jonathan King (Hillsboro, Ore.), Craig Schmugar (Hillsboro, Ore.), Abhishek Karnik (Hillsboro, Ore.), Celeste Fralick (Lubbock, Texas) and Vitaly Zaytsev (Hillsboro, Ore.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, apparatus, systems, and articles of manufacture are disclosed. An example apparatus includes at least one memory, instructions; and processor circuitry to execute the instructio...