US Patent Issued to Palo Alto Networks on Jan. 20 for "Machine learning for prioritizing traffic in multi- purpose inline cloud analysis (MICA) to enhance malware detection" (California, New Mexico Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,531,886, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to Palo Alto Networks Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Machine learning for prioritizing traffic in multi- purpose inline cloud analysis (MICA) to enhance malware detection" was invented by Sheng Yang (Santa Clara, Calif.), Curtis Leland Carmony (Albuquerque, N.M.), Ali Islam (Fremont, Calif.), Kashyap Tavarekere Ananthapadmanabha (San Jose, Calif.) and William Redington Hewlett II (Mountain View, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for machine learning for prioritizing traffic in multi-purpose inline cloud analysis (MICA) to enhance malware detection are disclosed. In some embodiments, a...