US Patent Issued to MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING on Sept. 1 for "Bayesian neural networks for ransomware incident detection" (American, Israeli Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,725,011, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Bayesian neural networks for ransomware incident detection" was invented by Jack Wilson Stokes III (North Bend, Wash.), Jurijs Nazarovs (Madison, Wis.), Melissa Turcotte (Santa Fe, N.M.), Justin Carroll (Kirkland, Wash.) and Itai Grady Ashkenazy (Ramat Hasharon, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The techniques disclosed herein identify ransomware attacks as they are occurring, improving the security and functionality of computer systems. Ransomware attacks are identified using a new probabilistic machine learning model that better handle...