US Patent Issued to Palo Alto Networks on Aug. 25 for "Automatic network signature generation" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,719,833, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to Palo Alto Networks Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Automatic network signature generation" was invented by Zhanhao Chen (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Jun Wang (Fremont, Calif.) and Wei Xu (Cupertino, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Automatic generation of network signatures is disclosed. Network profiles for malware samples are generated. Network signature candidates are selected based on the network profiles. The network signature candidates are automatically evaluated to automatically generate a new set of network signatures. The new set of network signatures is distributed to a security device/ser...