ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,609,944, issued on April 21, was assigned to Trend Micro Inc. (Tokyo).
"Data lineage-based anomaly detection" was invented by Sheng-Che Chang (Ottawa).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed are a system and methods for detecting anomalies in a computer network. Files that are stored in the computer network of an organization are enumerated. The locality-sensitive hash values of the enumerated files are calculated. Sensitive files among the enumerated files are identified based on the locality-sensitive hash values of the enumerated files. Similarity between identified sensitive files is determined based on their distance from each othe...