US Patent Issued to Netskope on April 7 for "Machine learning powered cloud sandbox for malware detection in portable document format (PDF) files" (American, Taiwanese, Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,596,804, issued on April 7, was assigned to Netskope Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Machine learning powered cloud sandbox for malware detection in portable document format (PDF) files" was invented by Xinjun Zhang (San Jose, Calif.), Zhenxin Zhan (Fremont, Calif.), Ghanashyam Satpathy (Bangalore, India), Hung-Ming Chen (Kaohsiung, Taiwan) and Dong Guo (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A cloud-based network security system (NSS) is described. The NSS uses a sandbox to safely open and extract information about a PDF file and uses machine learning algorithms to analyze the information to predict whether the PDF file contains m...