US Patent Issued to Salesforce on Feb. 17 for "Rule generation using entropy profile for malware detection" (Virginia, California, Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,554,848, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to Salesforce Inc. (San Francisco).

"Rule generation using entropy profile for malware detection" was invented by Dewey Roosevelt Richmond III (Ashburn, Va.), Ian Davis (Canyon Lake, Texas) and Mimi Wang (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In some embodiments, a method receives a file. The file is packed using a packing method. An entropy profile is generated for the file. The entropy profile describes an entropy of data over positions in the file. The method generates a rule to detect the entropy profile of the file by analyzing entropy values from the entropy profile in slices in the file....