ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,737,461, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"AI-based file maliciousness classification with an explanation of reasoning" was invented by Li Kang (Sammamish, Wash.), Heon Joon Choi (Seattle), Shauharda Khadka (Seattle), Ankit Garg (Seattle), Jayronn Christian Sulit Bucu (Bellevue, Wash.), Miranda Nicole McClellan (Dallas), Karen Lavi (Seattle), Siddharth Pavithran (Redmond, Wash.), Niveditha Shenoy Badiadka (Bothell, Wash.), Srishti Agarwal (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Tanmay Arun Ganacharya (Kirkland, Wash.) and Geoffrey Lyall McDonald (Vancouver, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techn...