ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,339,966, issued on June 24.

"Method and computer system for clearing possible malware from electronic documents" was invented by Friedrich Hartl (Vienna).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to a computer system and computer-implemented method for clearing possible malware from electronic documents, comprising the following steps: receiving an electronic original document on a control computer (1); transmitting the electronic original document to a display computer (2); transmitting the document content of the original document via a presentation signal (3) from the display computer (2) to the control computer (1); the con...