US Patent Issued to Microsoft Technology Licensing on March 3 for "Nefarious code detection using semantic understanding" (Washington, Pennsylvania Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,566,852, issued on March 3, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Nefarious code detection using semantic understanding" was invented by Shane Douglas Solomon (Renton, Wash.) and Christine Marie Difonzo (Lancaster, Pa.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosed technology is generally directed to nefarious code detection using semantic understanding. In one example of the technology, a natural-language output is generated by performing a natural-language translation of code. A machine-learning model is used to generate a confidence score that indicates a confidence that the natural-language output is pot...