G06F 21/56
Computer malware detection or handling
Official title: Computer malware detection or handling, e.g. anti-virus arrangements
G06F21/56 (Computer malware detection or handling) appears on 9,686 US grants and 10,318 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in G06F- Granted patents
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- Published applications
- 10,318
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- Latest grant
- 6 Oct 2026
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By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
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Granted patents
Recent patents
- Self-defending computing device6 Oct 2026US 12,755,009 B2Bank of America Corporation
- Detecting a harmful file using a database of vulnerable drivers6 Oct 2026US 12,755,013 B2AO Kaspersky Lab
- System and method for detection of malware or ransomware using entropy quantification6 Oct 2026US 12,755,014 B2Thales Dis Cpl USA, Inc.
- Antiransomware file analysis and scoring6 Oct 2026US 12,755,015 B2Halcyon Tech, Inc.
- Ransomware detection in memory of a data processing unit using machine learning detection models6 Oct 2026US 12,755,016 B2Mellanox Technologies, Ltd.
- Steering control system and method for performing reprogramming8 Oct 2026US 2026/0307716 A1Hl Mando Corporation
- A malware detection system and method8 Oct 2026US 2026/0310786 A1Cytwist Ltd.
- Quantum resistant trust orchestration for brain computer interfaces8 Oct 2026US 2026/0310787 A1
- Down porting a fix commit of a recent version of a component to an older version of the component8 Oct 2026US 2026/0310799 A1Endor Labs Inc
- Binary file threat detection based on pattern matching rule embeddings1 Oct 2026US 2026/0300486 A1Red Hat, Inc.
Most cited
By later US patents
- Automatic immune system for computers and computer networks838US 5,440,723 AInternational Business Machines Corporation · 1995
- Computer virus screening methods and systems722US 5,987,610 AAmeritech Corporation · 1999
- Network security system and method using a parallel finite state machine adaptive active monitor and responder690US 5,414,833 AInternational Business Machines Corporation · 1995
- E-mail virus protection system and method615US 7,506,155 B1Gatekeeper Ltd. · 2009
- System for virus-checking network data during download to a client device574US 6,088,803 AIntel Corporation · 2000