US Patent Issued to Microsoft Technology Licensing on Aug. 25 for "Detecting uploads of malicious files to cloud storage" (Israeli Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,717,903, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Detecting uploads of malicious files to cloud storage" was invented by Tamer Salman (Haifa, Israel) and Andrey Karpovsky (Kiryat Motzkin, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Files uploaded to a cloud storage medium are considered. The files may include a mixture of files known to be malicious and known to be benign. The files are clustered using similarity of file features, e.g., based on distance in a feature space. File clusters may then be used to determine a threat status of an unknown file (a file whose threat status is unknown initia...